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obfuscate

[ob-fuh-skeyt, ob-fuhs-keyt] / ˈɒb fəˌskeɪt, ɒbˈfʌs keɪt /


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Taylor Farms’ response frustrated administration officials, who viewed it as an effort to cast doubt on the broader investigation and obfuscate the company’s role.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

“I was completely OK with it,” she said, adding that the final report “did not in any way obfuscate anything.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

While Ferguson gets ample time to obfuscate, other, better scholars get little time to squeeze in some truth.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2025

In court documents, Mr Garcia's lawyers accused the US government of trying to "delay, obfuscate and flout court orders, while a man's life and safety is at risk".

From BBC Apr. 12, 2025

At least Fyrian never attempted to deflect or obfuscate Luna’s many questions.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

That’s how power obfuscates unseemly machinations: by claiming to be doing the opposite.

From Salon Mar. 18, 2025

“Colored Television” is a sharp critique of this binary preoccupation with identity, the ways in which the culture obfuscates serious issues that only breed further confusion.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2024

It was a scene rarely seen in Western Washington, which so often obfuscates celestial phenomena with clouds stretching so far into the horizon you wonder if they ever end.

From Seattle Times May 11, 2024

The rhetoric that a job is a passion obfuscates reality: It is an economic contract, Simone Stolzoff argues.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2023

It heats the blood, thickens the animal spirits, and obfuscates the cerebrum with frenetical and lymphatic idols, which cloud the quintessential light of the pure reason.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley

The author now alleges that Euracare has "stalled and muddied and obfuscated" over the inquest and has requested Nigeria's Federal High Court block the inquiry.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

“Pratt running has kind of obfuscated the differences between Raman and Bass,” Mitchell said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

Remember, obfuscated servers are the default with ExpressVPN.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2026

Like some previous videos released by the US government, a section of the boat is obfuscated for unspecified reasons.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

They acted slowly and without resolve, they backtracked, they obfuscated, they spoke with a small hesitant voice when what was needed was a howl.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

"They could be accessing these platforms with VPNs, or obfuscating their ages," Yasmin London, Global Online Safety Expert for Qustodio, said.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

No, their GPS coordinates have been disrupted, obfuscating their true location.

From BBC Mar. 9, 2026

Lawyers for the group contend the city is willfully obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2026

Robots may threaten ordinary human interactions while obfuscating what it means to be human.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

Let us note step by step the chain of what passes in us, without obfuscating our minds by any terms of the schools or any antecedent principle.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire




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