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

The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2023

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

At some point they got themselves into some kind of trouble, documented only obscurely in Chuck Day’s journal: “Talked ourselves out of a coupla places... cops, etc.”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown