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
Dr. John Montague was a doctor of philosophy; he had taken his degree in anthropology, feeling obscurely that in this field he might come closest to his true vocation, the analysis of supernatural manifestations.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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