obfuscate
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Many of them were shell companies to obfuscate the trail of oil and money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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
“I was completely OK with it,” she said, adding that the final report “did not in any way obfuscate anything.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
While Ferguson gets ample time to obfuscate, other, better scholars get little time to squeeze in some truth.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
At least Fyrian never attempted to deflect or obfuscate Luna’s many questions.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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That’s how power obfuscates unseemly machinations: by claiming to be doing the opposite.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
“Colored Television” is a sharp critique of this binary preoccupation with identity, the ways in which the culture obfuscates serious issues that only breed further confusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
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
You drink St. Emilion or still hock; I drink water from the well or the cup that cheers but not obfuscates.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
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
“Pratt running has kind of obfuscated the differences between Raman and Bass,” Mitchell said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
However, it can still benefit from the privacy and security benefits of encryption or obfuscated servers, particularly in regions that heavily restrict internet access.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 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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Alliance sought a contempt order contending that the city was willfully obfuscating to cover up inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
No, their GPS coordinates have been disrupted, obfuscating their true location.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Robots may threaten ordinary human interactions while obfuscating what it means to be human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
And if creators can get their subjects to participate only by obfuscating what they intend to do, the end result cannot be totally true.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
Let us note step by step the chain of what passes in us, without obfuscating our minds by any terms of the schools or any antecedent principle.
From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
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