obnubilated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for obnubilated
Adjective
  • Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Zegna is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Temasek previously acquired 12.7 million ordinary through market purchases, or a little less than 5 percent, in an undefined time frame.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • WarGames and The Matrix, each in its own quite different way, follow the classic dictum that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    Jeremy Dauber, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
  • Despite being a protective measure, the experience is often indistinguishable from punitive isolation.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • Because for now, the Patriots’ future is foggy except for two truths.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
  • You’re supposed to be the steady hand on the wheel, even when the road ahead is foggy.
    David Ko, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There have been studies done that show some randomness to red-zone success — or that year-to-year correlation is pretty faint.
    Sam McDowell August 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Monday's haze, while less dramatic, still obscured visibility and left a faint scent of smoke lingering in the air.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Both are elite operatives able to charm their way into a room full of guards or kick their way out of one, and both are linked to a shadowy organization powerful enough to shape world events.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Plastic Beauty is set in the glamorous and shadowy world of plastic surgery, and follows Matsuoka as Fumi Numata, a gifted surgeon whose circumstances push her to shift from general surgery to aesthetics.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But the seagrass beds that anchor its ecosystem are dying — choked and poisoned by water grown cloudy with runoff from busy roads, cow pastures and septic tanks leaching human waste.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Sunny to partly cloudy, hot and humid; a thunderstorm in spots in the afternoon.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The fuzzy covering can also wear down your dog's teeth over time.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Grant’s forthright evocation of community, a word so frequently used that its meaning has grown fuzzy, would be easy to attribute to his own roots in the rural-Blacksburg area, where the story unfolds.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In the dim lights of a Nashville bar or the buzz of a dorm social, a seemingly innocent sip can turn sinister if someone has access to your drink.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Big groups often dine under the dim lights while toasting martinis and Manhattans, but there’s a romantic air throughout (and a spartan little bar in the back).
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Obnubilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obnubilated. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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