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When the second-largest U.S. bank discloses its quarterly financial results, analysts have to decipher the lexicon of CEO Brian Moynihan, riddled with obscure, archaic words like “gainsay,” “concomitant” and “fantods.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

To be sure, with stocks near record territory on Friday, nervous investors had plenty of other things to worry about besides obscure technicals.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

That overwhelming amount of ordinary DNA can obscure the much rarer fragments associated with early cancer, making them harder and more expensive to find.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Russian law allows companies to obscure ownership data to avoid foreign sanctions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

But his shame seems to obscure any pleasure he might feel in her offer.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

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

There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

In it are comprised many popular fictions, on the obscurer parts of which a quite insufficient light is thrown by researches among the manners and mythologies of old European heathenism.

From Indian Fairy Tales by Anonymous

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

"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coetzee calls him "the obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

From Time Magazine Archive

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.—Mazzini.

From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

The Rector of Graybridge had chosen one of the obscurest texts in St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews for his sermon that morning, and Isabel did not even try to understand him.

From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But his intimidating onyx armor obscures all that, much in the way Darth Vader’s helmet and cloak overcompensate for his shriveled form.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Velvet wingback chairs flank a fireplace and a stained-glass window obscures the parking lot outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

But he believes the complicated ownership picture that now obscures who owns some of these buildings - or who the tenants are - is another difficulty in protecting at risk sites.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

This framing obscures the power imbalance between children seeking care and adults licensed to treat them.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

In fact, it only obscures my view for a few seconds before evaporating completely.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

When prices are bundled or obscured, consumers—in this case students—encounter fewer day-to-day reminders of opportunity costs or the economic realities that accompany virtually every decision in ordinary life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As time ticked by, slowly but surely the Moon obscured more of the Sun - acting like a dimmer switch as it did so.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Trudy Crielaard, a chemistry teacher who lives near Utrecht in the Netherlands, recalled trying to watch the eclipse in 1999 when clouds obscured the sun’s corona.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

While a great deal of its walls are composed of frosted glass, most of it is obscured by cabinets and shelves.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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

They covered entire mountains, obscuring the small houses at the very top.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova