obfuscate
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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
This is the latest of Wall Street’s never-ending efforts to hide, complicate and obfuscate fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Firstly because he had no idea what obfuscate meant.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
That’s how power obfuscates unseemly machinations: by claiming to be doing the opposite.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
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
Chinese commentators and the public have widely criticized the death toll, saying it obfuscates the real picture and hurts the government’s credibility.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
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
However, it can still benefit from the privacy and security benefits of encryption or obfuscated servers, particularly in regions that heavily restrict internet access.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 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
“The strength in megacap tech has obfuscated what appears to be increasing signs of weakness through much of the real economy,” said Bob Elliott, chief executive at Unlimited funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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
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
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
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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