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obscurely

[uhb-skyoor-lee] / əbˈskyʊər 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

First came Joel Thompson’s “To See the Sky,” obscurely subtitled “an exegesis for orchestra.”

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

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

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2023

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




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