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obscurantist

NOUN
censor
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NOUN
thought police
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There’s a 2022 documentary called “Lynch/Oz” that ruminates on the ties between the befuddling obscurantist and the eternal blockbuster.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2025

The course instructor, Daniel Gabriel, a young poet, found her student verse, as he told Spiegelman, “overwritten, obscurantist and difficult.”

From Washington Post Mar. 3, 2023

Even his most devoted followers sometimes wonder whether his obscurantist tweets are serious or are made in jest.

From New York Times May 10, 2022

"We, lawyers, do not want a communitarian and obscurantist judiciary," they wrote in the French publication Marianne.

From Reuters Mar. 2, 2022

Religion in human life is not a subject apart, nor is it necessary to regard all theological revolts as obscurantist.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith




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