obscured
Example Sentences
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"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
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
"Even one percent of the Sun that is not obscured is 4,000 times as bright as the full Moon," Paris Observatory astrophysicist Alain Doressoundiram told French media last week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
