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

Brovdi’s team drove me to the meeting points in a vehicle with the windows blacked out to obscure any glimpse of the route to secret locations somewhere in southeastern Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

To the general reader, the sentence might seem obscure and may have been so intended.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Trying to get their heads round the fact that this obscure contraption may determine the outcome of the war.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

The illustrious Smith may make a failure; the obscurer Brown may score a hit.

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams

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

The Fiend once evolved from the obscurest depths of his inner consciousness a truly fearful and alarming plan.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

With a knowledge of philology and some application you managed to make out even the obscurest sentences.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta

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

Attributing accountability to artificial intelligence obscures the human decisions that led to these outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The next time the Moon obscures as much of the Sun on the British Isles will be in 2081, and the next total solar eclipse in the UK will be in 2090.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

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

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

In these stories, the machinery of modern bureaucracy has outrun its original purpose and obscured the humanity of the individual in a pile of papers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

I could still see her but she was fading: the reds and yellows of a dying summer obscured her dark form.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

He feels he has no choice but to keep up with other dealers in his area, even if his competitors are obscuring fees and add-ons, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

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

Bright, white flames had erupted around Dumbledore’s body and the table upon which it lay: Higher and higher they rose, obscuring the body.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling