obscure

It said it was "concocted well after the event in an attempt to obscure and conceal the realities of the disguised funding scheme".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Growing up, I was one of those reflexively contrarian teenagers who hated anything popular and found value in almost anything obscure, independent or weird.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Critics also caution that “Star Trek’s” hopeful vision can obscure tensions within its own world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Now I’ve lived long enough to have watched it go from an obscure grape pushed by cool-kid sommeliers to something that’s found on most shop shelves and wine lists in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

In fact, “Wanderlust” would be considered obscure and little trafficked, as poems go.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

So little even in Robertson’s day did English literature, in its obscurer sources, enter into the pursuits of our greatest writers.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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

Even obscurest weeds Nourish the roots of fruitfulest fair trees So from our Fortune loathed Hope proceeds The experience that may base high victories.*

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake

The evidence of a cure is the obscurest thing in the world.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

There’s a certain philosophy to dressing the body in Japan where the clothing obscures the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The next time the Moon obscures as much of the Sun on the British Isles will be in 2081, and the next total solar eclipse in the UK will be in 2090.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

That narrative obscures the real success and failure of the man who presided as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987-2006.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

The fog obscures the early morning joggers and the lone practitioners of tai chi.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The scheme, according to the league, obscured the true source of more than $1.1 billion in funding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Rare compounds can easily be obscured by other chemicals that occur in much larger quantities.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Seeing the outfit up close is a reminder of just how little Hopkins needed to work with: Even with virtually his entire body immobilized and much of his face obscured, Lecter somehow became more frightening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He wore a dark hoodie cinched around his face and a rubber mask that obscured everything but his eyes.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The valleys were white with fog and the top of Mount Cataract was entirely obscured, invisible in the cold haze.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He feels he has no choice but to keep up with other dealers in his area, even if his competitors are obscuring fees and add-ons, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

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

Indeed, following the street further along to where it runs over the little round-backed bridge, I could see the mist rising from the river, obscuring almost entirely one of the bridge-posts.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro