obscure

Growing up, I was one of those reflexively contrarian teenagers who hated anything popular and found value in almost anything obscure, independent or weird.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Critics also caution that “Star Trek’s” hopeful vision can obscure tensions within its own world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Now I’ve lived long enough to have watched it go from an obscure grape pushed by cool-kid sommeliers to something that’s found on most shop shelves and wine lists in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Users of Meta glasses have figured out ways to obscure components meant to indicate that a photo or video is being captured, including by tampering with the electronics in the device.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Sarai opened her eyes again, feeling dreamy and obscure, like a sentence half translated into a beautiful new language.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Or as Folger’s artistic director, Janet Griffin, said to me one time, in reference to another of Shakespeare’s obscurer dramas, “Pericles”: “We are looking for what the play is saying to us today.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2017

I suggested moving to an obscurer table in the rear.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010

There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even her obscurer books have something about them that attracts popular attention, for more than most stylists, she writes about the common gist of things.

From Time Magazine Archive

We must not allow ourselves to be brow-beaten by arguments drawn from the obscurer region of physical and external nature.

From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin

Feel grateful we live in a time when the obscurest, niche-iest, weirdest series you love got a chance to exist.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

Coetzee calls him "the obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."

From Time Magazine Archive

"The obscurest epoch is today," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even obscurest weeds Nourish the roots of fruitfulest fair trees So from our Fortune loathed Hope proceeds The experience that may base high victories.*

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake

The creator of Octavio Montefiasco, the Demon of the Galleys, flatters himself that he understands the obscurest diagnostic of the complaint commonly designated 'spoons.'

From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Military authorities put effort into messaging that ultimately obscures responsibility and causality, and family members who speak out sometimes fear real repercussions for themselves and loved ones.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

Velvet wingback chairs flank a fireplace and a stained-glass window obscures the parking lot outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Often, the design’s playfulness obscures the protagonist’s malaise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

But he believes the complicated ownership picture that now obscures who owns some of these buildings - or who the tenants are - is another difficulty in protecting at risk sites.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

Just like in our room, where a window should be on the outer wall, a metal insert obscures the view outside to the stars, and maybe my first view of Sagan.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Rare compounds can easily be obscured by other chemicals that occur in much larger quantities.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Seeing the outfit up close is a reminder of just how little Hopkins needed to work with: Even with virtually his entire body immobilized and much of his face obscured, Lecter somehow became more frightening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

He wore a dark hoodie cinched around his face and a rubber mask that obscured everything but his eyes.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The result is that the entire property is obscured from public view to a degree without precedent in recent history, according to Charles Birnbaum, a former National Park Service official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

From his place leaning against one of the stable’s walls, he was partially obscured in shadow.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

While most of the players wore the shirts fully, Mbappe, Vinicius and Konate had theirs rolled up to around chest height, obscuring some of the slogan.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

In such an environment, making firm-level ROI the primary measure of success is misguided; worse, it risks obscuring why firms must invest in AI at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Now, policies are seemingly directed at obscuring conditions in the for-profit facility operated by The GEO Group.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The inky storm front was less than a hundred feet away now, obscuring everything ahead of them.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan