obfuscate

And sneaky: They didn’t try to steal sensitive data, but spent massive resources in a vain effort to obfuscate logs of their activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

You don’t get to walk into my courtroom, pretend that’s top of mind, then obfuscate when I ask why your office is still running illegally.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 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

“All the things I read in the final report did not in any way obfuscate anything, as far as I’m concerned.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025

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

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

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

Footage of desperate Afghans crowding airports, trying to escape, makes the urgency of the situation palpable, but it also obfuscates the logistics of Ghafari’s own exit and the questions of access and privilege it raises.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

But the persistence of the chemical myth of depression obfuscates this kind of decision-making.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2022

“It’s time to stop calling this a drought, because that obfuscates what’s happening here. Droughts are temporary. What we’re seeing is anything but temporary,” Udall said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022

In such a state I was, and I assume many of us are, in respect to the principle of "development" which obfuscates pedagogy, in its connection with the rudiments.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count

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

A Pentagon spokesman obfuscated the choice to the press in the language of a “comprehensive, multilayered process.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

NordVPN also includes a solid set of core VPN features such as split tunneling, a kill switch, obfuscated servers and Double VPN routing.

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

Two months in, the rose-colored lenses are especially obfuscating.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

"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

The idea that this has to be weighted down with law-review articles and footnotes and arcana about the history of a three-part test is a way of obfuscating, right?

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

"I was part of the decision-making process and the decision is as Rachel Reeves set it out," he said, adding he was "not obfuscating" when pressed on his previous stance.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

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