obscurity
Example Sentences
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Minnesota coach Chris Finch got his start toiling in the obscurity of the British Basketball League.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The conversation once again put the spotlight on Mandava herself - a 26-year-old who, in less than two years, has gone from relative obscurity to one of global fashion's most watched new faces.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
The obscurity condemned by Johnson derives in part from Shakespeare’s readiness to draw on vocabulary that would have struck even his contemporaries as bewilderingly nonstandard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas rescued the group from obscurity after catching Cheap Trick’s act at a bowling alley in Waukesha, Wis. Impressed, he offered to help.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Unable to pursue his work, he sank into an understandably dispirited obscurity.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing obscurity
The Maze Runner
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Pygmalion
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"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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