obfuscate

Many of them were shell companies to obfuscate the trail of oil and money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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

But the more ridiculous elements of Patel’s activism can obfuscate the fact that he has already been accused of genuinely dangerous activity.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

At least Fyrian never attempted to deflect or obfuscate Luna’s many questions.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

“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

Chinese commentators and the public have widely criticized the death toll, saying it obfuscates the real picture and hurts the government’s credibility.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

But the persistence of the chemical myth of depression obfuscates this kind of decision-making.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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

It also provides obfuscated servers, but obfuscation isn’t enabled across the board.

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

“The strength in megacap tech has obfuscated what appears to be increasing signs of weakness through much of the real economy,” said Bob Elliott, chief executive at Unlimited funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

"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

No, their GPS coordinates have been disrupted, obfuscating their true location.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

Lawyers for the group contend the city is willfully obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

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