How to Use obfuscate in a Sentence

obfuscate

verb

• Politicians keep obfuscating the issues.
• Their explanations only serve to obfuscate and confuse.
• In that construct, the strong performance of the few can obfuscate the mediocrity of the many.
  — Christopher Lynch, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Rather than own up when the fraud was revealed, VW obfuscated and lied.
  — The Editorial Board, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• But to Smith, those exceptions can obfuscate the work that still needs to be done.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• This trailer does a decent job of obfuscating the major plots points of the film.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2017
• Words continued to come out of Lue’s mouth, but most of them were designed to obfuscate.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• Far too much happens in the shadows or is obfuscated by weasel words.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
• Part of the problem is that disclosure has become a way to obfuscate rather than to inform.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Nov. 2015
• So the best way to do it might be to obfuscate things and offer buyers access to toys that might not seem to be related to No Way Home.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 July 2021
• Of course the real flow numbers had to be guessed at by smart people, because BP has been allowed to lie and obfuscate for a month.
  — Mark Warren, Esquire, 21 May 2010
• In those days, though, the word hadn’t slipped into obfuscating overuse yet; even Clinton was able to take a small step beyond its veil.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• Don’t let Auburn’s failed quest to throw Harsin overboard obfuscate the issues raised last week by people who were part of the program in 2021.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
• This point alone should be a lodestar of the hearings: Elections matter for the court, even if most of what the court does is obfuscated and footnoted.
  — Neil S. Siegel, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• But many of the changes obfuscate the intended meaning.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• But the limitations of Hollywood screenwriting and the choice of a comet as a metaphor tend to obfuscate the true nature of the problem.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2021
• The opposite is true as well—an overwhelming data dump can be designed to obfuscate the facts on the ground.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
• Reducing both oil and the disease to little more than economic forces obfuscates another side of the equation, in which the virus is a thing in the world.
  — On Barak, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
• Others have worked just as hard to obfuscate what is really going on at their schools.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• The 20-year-old artist wears her heart on her sleeve during a time when lots of R&B prefers to obfuscate -- lyrically and sonically.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2017
• Chat Born in Synanon is largely about the passage of time, which can obfuscate, but also clarify.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2023
• This stems in part from both the urgency of the problem and the time wasted already through ignoring or obfuscating it.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Often, these works try to obfuscate the mechanisms of power that drive them.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• In response to some of the most pointed queries, the company offered replies that obfuscated the issues.
  — Colin Lecher, The Verge, 11 June 2018
• For nearly a month at this World Cup, Russia had managed to bend, tweak and obfuscate one simple fact—a state secret hidden in plain sight.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 7 July 2018
• For Maier, the conservative Germans were obfuscating the fact that their ancestors, and no one else, had built the death camps.
  — Samuel Moyn, The New York Review of Books, 19 May 2020
• There’s a new mode that will allow those users to obfuscate their location and your destination in the browser.
  — Gear Team, Wired, 7 June 2021
• China’s deny-and-obfuscate strategy at the outset helped speed the coronavirus’s spread around the world.
  — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 23 June 2020
• The combination of capitalism and a particular type of neoliberalism that we’ve all been seeped in and a certain consumer mentality has, for a while, obfuscated, or hid the question of class.
  — Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
• Garland deliberately obfuscates the politics shaping his near-future America, so what something has to do with anything else is usually vague.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024