obfuscation
Example Sentences
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"They did so through a tangled web of lies, obfuscation, and concealment."
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
If marriage is dependent on conditions that your boyfriend is unlikely to meet — and he accepts them — the delay and obfuscation may be your reality, your status quo.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026
“It’s all pretext and obfuscation when the real agenda is rejecting conventional science and serving a predetermined anti-vaccine agenda,” Richard Hughes IV, a law professor at George Washington University, told The Guardian.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026
"South Yorkshire Police must see that this is another disgraceful example of the evasion and obfuscation of the last four decades," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
Thyon, thirteen years old and sharp as the point of a viper’s fang, had looked around him at the cryptic rituals and philosophies and seen it all as obfuscation cooked up to excuse that failure.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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