obscure

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The deadly outbreak of Andes virus, a rare strain of hantavirus, is likely a “one-off” situation exacerbated by the obscure virus emerging on a cruise ship in remote waters.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Hantavirus is suspected of spreading aboard a luxury cruise ship, killing three passengers and sparking new concerns as a once obscure disease, with an extraordinarily high death rate, rises amid changing climate conditions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Kpler’s maps have since blanketed television news broadcasts, social-media feeds and traders’ terminals, turning obscure ships into objects of global fascination and drumming up enormous business for the cottage industry that tracks them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Closed-end funds, a relatively obscure type of mutual fund, sell a fixed number of fund shares, then trade on an exchange like a stock.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Only one worked as a bond trader inside a big Wall Street firm: a formerly obscure asset-backed bond trader at Deutsche Bank named Greg Lippmann.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis