obfuscatory

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for obfuscatory
Adjective
  • This is something incomprehensible to any human being.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The loss of Oakland’s MLB team and then the city’s greatest MLB son in the same year is an almost incomprehensible loss for fans like Peters, who feel abandoned by the league.
    Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Chris Coffey, a political strategist who worked on Andrew Yang’s unsuccessful 2021 mayoral run, noted petitioning in the 2025 race starts next week, making Adams’ apparent lack of a campaign operation more puzzling.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • But a deeper look at the data also suggests something more puzzling: the Gen Z voters who overwhelmingly helped propel Joe Biden to the White House in 2020 are not the same Gen Z voters who backed a second Trump term in 2024.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The capability allowed users to encrypt almost all of their iCloud data, making messages, notes, photos and iPhone backups indecipherable, even when the information was stored in cloud computing centers.
    Tripp Mickle, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a circle with indecipherable writing on it, suspended in the center of a larger gold shape.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Asking about frustrations in a broad, theoretical sense is too vague to elicit actionable insights.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The reference is vague and does not signal any specific American commitment to safeguarding Ukraine’s security.
    Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • These are the people who, for some inexplicable reason, will park right next to you, even though there are hundreds of open spaces in the parking lot.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Leno has generally been good this season but was comically poor in this one, a poor pass to Pereira followed by an inexplicable howler.
    Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The investigation finds Reacher smack dab in the center of a mysterious rug import business called Bizarre Bazaar.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The world’s waters are deep and mysterious places, and the best fishermen are good at keeping secrets.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • One of his other child costars was a little more nebulous — the mouse brother Stuart Little.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • There are also more nebulous items, such as advice to beware of social engineering and watch out for spam.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Customers can make an appointment to browse the merchandise, including furniture, jewelry, silver, and obscure objects from around the globe, before placing their bids in the auctions, which are held exclusively online.
    Frances MacDougall, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Players carry fake guns – such as water pistols – while concealing their identities and running through areas and hiding in obscure places.
    Julia Bonavita, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Obfuscatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscatory. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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