obscurely

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Let the officers pore over their digital maps and the soldiers gesticulate obscurely at one another on the field.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

At the time, US officials said Mr Artemov used an expansive network of ships often registered obscurely to transport Iranian oil.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

You would have to include the Air Force Association and the obscurely named Submarine Industrial Base Council, among others.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2023

Somewhat obscurely, Aristotle claims that this first cause is “thought thinking itself.”

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Cartographers create fictional landmarks, streets, and municipalities and place them obscurely into their maps.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green