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obscurely

[uhb-skyoor-lee] / əbˈskjʊər li /


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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

It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night--and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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