obscure
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In 2026 we are seeing something different: the slop of war, in which decoy diplomacy combines with military head-fakes to obscure the actual state of play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
Which is a better U.S. stock index for your retirement plan: the well-known S&P 500 index of large U.S. companies or the more obscure S&P MidCap 400 index of middle-size companies?
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
Others, like the Marine Mammal Commission, are quite obscure.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 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
Who would decide whether the obscurer passages should be understood according to the bare sound of the words, or if a more spiritual meaning were applicable?--Synods?
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob
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
You have gone straight to the heart of this mystery, and have thrown light into its obscurest corner, as a dozen flaming torches would have illumined that dark laboratory in the Monastery.
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert
Even obscurest weeds Nourish the roots of fruitfulest fair trees So from our Fortune loathed Hope proceeds The experience that may base high victories.*
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob
The hagiographic tone of “The Man Will Burn” obscures that.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 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
This framing obscures the power imbalance between children seeking care and adults licensed to treat them.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026
During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s shadow obscures the moon; in a solar eclipse event, the moon blocks the sun from view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
The crowd obscures the waterfront, his favorite cafe.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
You couldn’t see the top of the tent at all—it was completely obscured by rolling clouds of smoke.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
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
Her- schel had been misled because of the copious amount of obscuring dust in the direction of Sagittarius; he had no way to know of the enormous numbers of stars beyond.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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