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Synthetic aperture radar sends microwave signals toward Earth's surface, allowing satellites to collect measurements even when clouds obscure the ground.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

As the city and county fight to take over LAHSA’s duties, an obscure decision-making body called the Continuum of Care has been placed in the spotlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

She believes the rapid commercial growth of women's football has helped to obscure some of these realities.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

They want to expose the obscure operations, to implore users to reconsider their relationship with these platforms.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

“I checked the occult bookstores, the spooky carnivals, the abandoned cemeteries, and all the obscure and little-trafficked corners of the city. Nothing!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

What the magnificent monarch did on a large scale, millions of obscurer men have done on a small.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

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

And if Swinburne is one of the obscurest of English poets, it is due in large part to this same element of motion.

From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

The generic disclaimer that the ad was paid for by the federal government obscures which agency might be responsible, Kappel said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The hagiographic tone of “The Man Will Burn” obscures that.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

Now, time is running out on the bird as the rising tide of concrete, scaffolding and rebar obscures Pinky from pedestrian view along the south side of Colorado Boulevard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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

He swings the door open and walks to the row of trunks that obscures Camel.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Gray regularly mines his commercial archive for images of entertainers, though he frequently presents them with their faces obscured, as a stand-in for larger ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

This year, the calculation has also been impacted by heavy haze, which has obscured satellite images at times.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The stampede to cut high-end liability has obscured the damage done to the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

And even at that moment the sun for a second faltered and was obscured, as though a dark wing had passed across it.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Also, Antinous sounded confident that he could detect the Argo II. Hazel’s magic seemed to be obscuring the ship so far, but there was no telling how long that would last.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan