obscure

Among the many ironies of all this is that newly rich sports stars and celebrities have the least reason to gamble on obscure get-rich-quick schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yet, if left abstract, they can obscure the real human people by whom and for whom these laws were enacted.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

An obscure dispute in Arizona family court has exploded across podcasts and YouTube.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Users of Meta glasses have figured out ways to obscure components meant to indicate that a photo or video is being captured, including by tampering with the electronics in the device.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

“I checked the occult bookstores, the spooky carnivals, the abandoned cemeteries, and all the obscure and little-trafficked corners of the city. Nothing!”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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 ● Apr. 27, 2017

I suggested moving to an obscurer table in the rear.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2010

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

There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

From Time Magazine Archive

And, in general, he misses the same points of the story as Thorkelin, although he craftily refrains from translating the obscurer passages.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Feel grateful we live in a time when the obscurest, niche-iest, weirdest series you love got a chance to exist.

From Slate ● 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

Even obscurest weeds Nourish the roots of fruitfulest fair trees So from our Fortune loathed Hope proceeds The experience that may base high victories.*

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake

But at last he began to feel a distaste for even these; and now nothing but the utter night-desolation of the obscurest warehousing lanes would content him, or be at all sufferable to him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Attributing accountability to artificial intelligence obscures the human decisions that led to these outcomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

There’s a certain philosophy to dressing the body in Japan where the clothing obscures the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The hagiographic tone of “The Man Will Burn” obscures that.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

But he believes the complicated ownership picture that now obscures who owns some of these buildings - or who the tenants are - is another difficulty in protecting at risk sites.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

He adjusts his stance until his feet are planted wide, bows his head so that his hair obscures his face, and holds the microphone up in the air in one hand—classic rock star pose.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

He wore a dark hoodie cinched around his face and a rubber mask that obscured everything but his eyes.

From Slate ● 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 ● 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 ● Aug. 17, 2026

As time ticked by, slowly but surely the Moon obscured more of the Sun - acting like a dimmer switch as it did so.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

I see the defunct sign dismantled and leaning against the side, almost obscured by overgrown weeds.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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 ● Sep. 16, 2026

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Now, policies are seemingly directed at obscuring conditions in the for-profit facility operated by The GEO Group.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

In total, more than 1.7 million satellites could soon be lighting up the night sky, obscuring or blotting out the view of ground-based telescopes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

I pointed to a tall hill obscuring my view of the northern bluffs.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss