obfuscate
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You don’t get to walk into my courtroom, pretend that’s top of mind, then obfuscate when I ask why your office is still running illegally.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
Blanche also responded to two other files highlighted by Massie, saying those files do not obfuscate any substantive information.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
Google recently detected an even bigger threat in the wild: bot-enabled software that can obfuscate its own code to evade detection and create new malicious capabilities on the fly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
“All the things I read in the final report did not in any way obfuscate anything, as far as I’m concerned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025
Firstly because he had no idea what obfuscate meant.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
It was a scene rarely seen in Western Washington, which so often obfuscates celestial phenomena with clouds stretching so far into the horizon you wonder if they ever end.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
Blockchain advocates are gearing up to fight after the Treasury imposed sanctions last week on Tornado Cash, a crypto “mixer” that obfuscates digital currency trails, and prosecutors in the Netherlands arrested one of its developers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
But McConnell still has the sense that people might think there is something wrong with being an amoral monster so he obfuscates.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022
It obscures personal intention, neutralizes discrimination, and obfuscates individual purpose.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
The author now alleges that Euracare has "stalled and muddied and obfuscated" over the inquest and has requested Nigeria's Federal High Court block the inquiry.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Like most proprietary software, Claude’s source code is usually obfuscated and hard to reverse engineer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
To use obfuscated servers with NordVPN, you need to switch your VPN protocol to NordWhisper.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Like some previous videos released by the US government, a section of the boat is obfuscated for unspecified reasons.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
They acted slowly and without resolve, they backtracked, they obfuscated, they spoke with a small hesitant voice when what was needed was a howl.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Two months in, the rose-colored lenses are especially obfuscating.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
"They could be accessing these platforms with VPNs, or obfuscating their ages," Yasmin London, Global Online Safety Expert for Qustodio, said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The idea that this has to be weighted down with law-review articles and footnotes and arcana about the history of a three-part test is a way of obfuscating, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lawyers for the group contended that the city was obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to comply with its settlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
The art of so obfuscating his expression with words that neither his friends nor his enemies can come to any positive conclusion as to what he means.
From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton
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