obscure

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Feinzig, who represented the couple targeted by Uthmeier, told me she worries that their particular circumstances may obscure the broader ramifications of the attorney general’s arguments.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

These were the first 10 posts, and there was nothing here that was particularly obscure, nor was there any kind of thread of continuity that seemed obvious.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

The obscure answer: the tiny Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius, which returned a friendly American warship’s 13-gun salute on Nov. 16, 1776.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Hantavirus is suspected of spreading aboard a luxury cruise ship, killing three passengers and sparking new concerns as a once obscure disease, with an extraordinarily high death rate, rises amid changing climate conditions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

No record of how she felt when agents from the Bureau of Investigation—an obscure branch of the Justice Department that, in 1935, would be renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation—finally arrived in town.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann