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

He emphasised that in systems of such complexity, obscure faults are extremely hard to prevent.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

We can be sure that the Chinese side never lets pragmatic cooperation in areas of mutual interest obscure the core differences that divide us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

On other occasions, he pinned the answers to tests in obscure corners of the bulletin board.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether he saw anything or not belongs among the obscurer questions of psychopathy.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

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

Adelle shrank into the obscurest corner and her anemonelike charm, tentatively putting forth, was quite lost in the scramble.

From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick

The obscurest and humblest person has a fair field for competition.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew

But his intimidating onyx armor obscures all that, much in the way Darth Vader’s helmet and cloak overcompensate for his shriveled form.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

But more than that, it obscures the reality and erases the history of transgender lives by diminishing the significant time, money, and effort many transgender people spend to align their body with their sex.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

That narrative obscures the real success and failure of the man who presided as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987-2006.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

To Fenn, the smallpox historian, the squabble over the number of deaths and the degree of blame obscures something more important.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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

Whereas Meghan does occasionally show the couple's children on social media, their faces are often obscured as they are photgraphed from behind or their faces are hidden by their parents.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

“Due to Defendants’ wrongful actions, Demon Hunter’s established identity is becoming increasingly obscured within recorded music, live touring and merchandise-related channels due to overlapping use by the KPop Demon Hunters brand,” the lawsuit states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

He looked totally at ease, his narrow face obscured by the brim of his hat.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

The deals were often named after city streets or U.S. presidents, obscuring who was borrowing the insurers’ money or the quality of those investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

The firm has also been accused of obscuring its production processes from the public eye.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Their panes glow in the starlight, obscuring the treasures I imagine to be inside them, small plants with berries dangling from their branches, rows of potato plants buried in the earth.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth