obscure

Yet, if left abstract, they can obscure the real human people by whom and for whom these laws were enacted.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

Users of Meta glasses have figured out ways to obscure components meant to indicate that a photo or video is being captured, including by tampering with the electronics in the device.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

"In that framework, gluons inside a nucleus partially overlap and obscure each other -- similar to layers of clouds blocking sunlight -- reducing the probability of certain particle production processes," he said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

But people often sought to obscure their intentions and persistently tried new approaches when Claude rejected their requests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

In fact, “Wanderlust” would be considered obscure and little trafficked, as poems go.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether he saw anything or not belongs among the obscurer questions of psychopathy.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

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

And if Swinburne is one of the obscurest of English poets, it is due in large part to this same element of motion.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

Is it nothing to take a mirage for a landscape, nothing to be hoodwinked of your confidence, to see high noon dissolve into obscurest night, a diamond into pinchbeck?

From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus

There’s a certain philosophy to dressing the body in Japan where the clothing obscures the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The next time the Moon obscures as much of the Sun on the British Isles will be in 2081, and the next total solar eclipse in the UK will be in 2090.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

But his intimidating onyx armor obscures all that, much in the way Darth Vader’s helmet and cloak overcompensate for his shriveled form.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 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

In modern translations these words are often represented by the word ‘discovery’, but this obscures the fact that in 1492 ‘discovery’ was not an established concept.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Whereas Meghan does occasionally show the couple's children on social media, their faces are often obscured as they are photgraphed from behind or their faces are hidden by their parents.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Investors have overreacted to energy-driven swings in inflation, in his view, and the slow-moving part of inflation has been coming down gradually, obscured by high-frequency moves in energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Sparra warriors appeared in swarms that almost obscured the sky above the Abbey.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In such an environment, making firm-level ROI the primary measure of success is misguided; worse, it risks obscuring why firms must invest in AI at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The firm has also been accused of obscuring its production processes from the public eye.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Sleet drummed slantwise at the great rigid envelope of the craft, making a noise that almost drowned the clatter and howl of the straining engines, and obscuring the view of the ground.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman