obscure
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Critics also caution that “Star Trek’s” hopeful vision can obscure tensions within its own world.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 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 β Sep. 21, 2026
He emphasised that in systems of such complexity, obscure faults are extremely hard to prevent.
From BBC β Sep. 21, 2026
Don’t get lured into a clever, obscure get-rich-quick scheme sold to you by a plausible-sounding con artist.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 18, 2026
Belief could be sustained only if a peculiar authority was granted to obscure books, or better still ancient manuscripts newly discovered in locked chests.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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 β Apr. 27, 2017
I suggested moving to an obscurer table in the rear.
From The Guardian β 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
For instance, Rembrandt always chooses to represent the exact force with which the light on the most illumined part of an object is opposed to its obscurer portions.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
Feel grateful we live in a time when the obscurest, niche-iest, weirdest series you love got a chance to exist.
From Slate β 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 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
In the obscurest part of the church, after much seeking, two silken bags were discovered, which had carefully preserved the relics of St. Frideswide.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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 β Aug. 11, 2026
The hagiographic tone of “The Man Will Burn” obscures that.
From Salon β Jul. 24, 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 β 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 β Jun. 22, 2026
This forest obscures our view of the river, and any other distance.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
He wore a dark hoodie cinched around his face and a rubber mask that obscured everything but his eyes.
From Slate β Sep. 17, 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 β Aug. 20, 2026
"Everything was foggy, you couldn't open the window and it stank," she said, showing a picture on her phone of an orange glow partially obscured by thick smoke clouds that had turned the air black.
From Barron's β Aug. 17, 2026
When prices are bundled or obscured, consumers—in this case students—encounter fewer day-to-day reminders of opportunity costs or the economic realities that accompany virtually every decision in ordinary life.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 14, 2026
He backed up the curving street, his head the only thing I could see for a moment, the rest of him obscured by flowering trees and gold-covered rooftops.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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 β 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 β Sep. 16, 2026
The firm has also been accused of obscuring its production processes from the public eye.
From Barron's β Aug. 24, 2026
But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.
From Slate β Aug. 4, 2026
Just like the day before, the door to the smaller lab clouded over, obscuring everything else from view.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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