obfuscate
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En route, they had undergone 'layering,' where the funds are split and moved through many digital wallets to obfuscate their paths.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Blanche also responded to two other files highlighted by Massie, saying those files do not obfuscate any substantive information.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 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
Firstly because he had no idea what obfuscate meant.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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“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
Blockchain advocates are gearing up to fight after the Treasury imposed sanctions last week on Tornado Cash, a crypto “mixer” that obfuscates digital currency trails, and prosecutors in the Netherlands arrested one of its developers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
Thus, a selection effect occurs among which studies enter the popular consciousness, and which don't — which, again, obfuscates the arc of scientific discovery.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2022
You drink St. Emilion or still hock; I drink water from the well or the cup that cheers but not obfuscates.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
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
Once you do that, the server list updates to the subset of NordWhisper servers, so you can just connect like normal to use an obfuscated server.
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
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"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
DiNanno said the Chinese military “sought to conceal testing by obfuscating the nuclear explosions because it recognized these tests violate test ban commitments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
And if creators can get their subjects to participate only by obfuscating what they intend to do, the end result cannot be totally true.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
Badenoch said the prime minister was "obfuscating" and that he owed MPs "an explanation".
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024
The art of so obfuscating his expression with words that neither his friends nor his enemies can come to any positive conclusion as to what he means.
From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton
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