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A surge in Amazon.com stock Friday gave the Nasdaq enough momentum to obscure Apple’s slump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

And while the reports are often voluminous, it is hard to predict what seemingly obscure data points could become essential in a moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Nearly a century later, when kids spend half as much time outside as their parents did, City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield wants to cut the obscure law from the books.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

But that agreement can obscure a much sharper divergence.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

Belief could be sustained only if a peculiar authority was granted to obscure books, or better still ancient manuscripts newly discovered in locked chests.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Or as Folger’s artistic director, Janet Griffin, said to me one time, in reference to another of Shakespeare’s obscurer dramas, “Pericles”: “We are looking for what the play is saying to us today.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2017

I suggested moving to an obscurer table in the rear.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010

There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about the common gist of things.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two accounts are essentially the same, but the Abrahamic version is so much fuller and clearer that it illumines the obscurer parts of the Mosaic account.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by Widtsoe, John Andreas

Feel grateful we live in a time when the obscurest, niche-iest, weirdest series you love got a chance to exist.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

Coetzee calls him "the obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

From Time Magazine Archive

"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.

From Time Magazine Archive

The evidence of a cure is the obscurest thing in the world.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward

The relations with Napoleon III. form one of the most interesting but obscurest episodes in Bismarck’s career.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

The hagiographic tone of “The Man Will Burn” obscures that.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The result is a metaphysical model that, at best, lacks clarity, and at worst obscures the very nature of reality.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

Often, the design’s playfulness obscures the protagonist’s malaise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Backdrop to the Kilanga pageant, rising up behind the houses, a tall wall of elephant grass obscures our view of anything but the distance.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Additionally, the sell-off in memory stocks and hyperscalers’ debt has obscured strength in other sectors, which have seen the benefits of a rotation out of those stocks, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Embassy job that obscured his true position, CIA station chief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

But levels of fine particulate matter spiked sharply during the main show, leaving people watching from the south with an obscured view as smoke came billowing their way.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

LH 95 provides scientists with an exceptional opportunity to study stellar birth because it is both relatively nearby and less obscured by dust than similar star forming regions within the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Jacob was careful to keep clear of any hints of his religion and therefore obscured his own story as much as possible.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Now, policies are seemingly directed at obscuring conditions in the for-profit facility operated by The GEO Group.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

However, those same cold traps could also collect organic compounds released by visiting spacecraft, potentially obscuring the pristine material scientists hope to study.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

In total, more than 1.7 million satellites could soon be lighting up the night sky, obscuring or blotting out the view of ground-based telescopes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

When rolling up Vin Scully Avenue, a white smoke hung like a curtain behind the small hills on the other side of outfield walls, obscuring the normally scenic view of the San Gabriel Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Indeed, following the street further along to where it runs over the little round-backed bridge, I could see the mist rising from the river, obscuring almost entirely one of the bridge-posts.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro