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The federal law enforcement probe into the financial affairs of the Dodgers’ controlling owner, Mark Walter, seems to focus on what looks like an obscure financial maneuver: related-party transactions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

By keeping his own zone obscure, Mr. Warsh has made himself the most-watched man on the field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Treasury secretary wants the central bank to help by raising its $60 billion borrowing limit on an obscure lending program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

But any and all statistics obscure the larger point: If you’re a Brewers fan, when is your year?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

Then there were the features focusing on some remote and obscure rural tribe.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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

And, in general, he misses the same points of the story as Thorkelin, although he craftily refrains from translating the obscurer passages.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Hay, William Delisle

Rich and poor knelt together upon their marble pavements, and the imperial altar welcomed the obscurest artisan.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

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

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

The result is a metaphysical model that, at best, lacks clarity, and at worst obscures the very nature of reality.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

He takes his top hat from its stand and puts it on her head, where it slides down and obscures her questioning eyes in a cage of black silk.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

By the time Det Con Ryan came across it, it was partially obscured by overgrown hedges and long grass.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

He achieved this by observing the effect of a light-bending phenomenon called gravitational lensing on the stars that became visible while the Sun's dazzling light was obscured.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Additionally, the sell-off in memory stocks and hyperscalers’ debt has obscured strength in other sectors, which have seen the benefits of a rotation out of those stocks, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Embassy job that obscured his true position, CIA station chief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The television was on; Laurel and Hardy, obscured by a blizzard of electronic snow, were trying to move a grand piano up a great many flights of stairs.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

In total, more than 1.7 million satellites could soon be lighting up the night sky, obscuring or blotting out the view of ground-based telescopes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

The results suggest that salt clouds are obscuring deeper layers of the atmosphere and influencing the light that ultimately reaches JWST.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

This time it pierces the now nearly shredded paper in between the words “audiences” and “spectacle,” obscuring the “with” completely.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern