obscure

Critics also caution that “Star Trek’s” hopeful vision can obscure tensions within its own world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

I listened to obscure podcasts and read hyperniche blogs.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Among the many ironies of all this is that newly rich sports stars and celebrities have the least reason to gamble on obscure get-rich-quick schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Abilene project vaulted Crusoe from a relatively obscure energy startup into a central player in the AI data-center world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the farthest balcony, unaccompanied women in masks raised their fans to obscure their pox-marks, observed by men guessing at identity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

If Mr. Stuart and Mr. Webster do not see that, there are plenty of obscurer men that do.

From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I know it all from its broad faubourgs to its obscurest cul de sac.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis

That is a distinction he shares with few members to-day, and to it is added the privilege of being personally the obscurest man in the Commons.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

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

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Velvet wingback chairs flank a fireplace and a stained-glass window obscures the parking lot outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

But he believes the complicated ownership picture that now obscures who owns some of these buildings - or who the tenants are - is another difficulty in protecting at risk sites.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

This framing obscures the power imbalance between children seeking care and adults licensed to treat them.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

He adjusts his stance until his feet are planted wide, bows his head so that his hair obscures his face, and holds the microphone up in the air in one hand—classic rock star pose.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

He wore a dark hoodie cinched around his face and a rubber mask that obscured everything but his eyes.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was a silly argument, and it obscured much more consequential developments at the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“Due to Defendants’ wrongful actions, Demon Hunter’s established identity is becoming increasingly obscured within recorded music, live touring and merchandise-related channels due to overlapping use by the KPop Demon Hunters brand,” the lawsuit states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

It was then that Boaz got a proper look, less obscured by the shadows, at what now surrounded them.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

The detractors were nervous that Gannon was obscuring clearcut evidence that both G42 and the U.A.E. shouldn’t be trusted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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

Clouds drifted across the sky, obscuring the thin sliver of moon.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques