obnubilated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obnubilated
Adjective
  • On the shaded side of Rio Vista’s Main Street, where the road climbs away from the Sacramento River, sits Foster’s Bighorn, the bar and restaurant that has occupied this spot for 90 years.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • If someone succumbs to the heat, promptly relocate them to a cool, shaded location.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Prosecutors say in court papers that Hoffman was fully aware he was prohibited from funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in undefined, but did so anyway.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Like other big tech names, Oracle is betting much of its future on the promise that demand for computing capacity will keep going up as generative AI ushers in some kind of as-yet-undefined revolution.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • At some point, though, meaning that is sufficiently cryptic becomes indistinguishable from no meaning at all.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There are, however, key technical challenges such as generating on-demand, indistinguishable single photons with high efficiency, and the probabilistic nature of photonic gates (the electronic elements in a computer performing logic operations).
    Gil Press, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • My feelings about Euphoria are fairly clouded now by all the drama surrounding the production.
    James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
  • Post-pandemic immigration surges, followed by stricter enforcement, distorted many traditional labor-market signals and clouded real-time interpretation of headline statistics.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Milby says the incident occurred during foggy conditions, which could have affected Sardone's visibility.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • On Monday morning, the NWS office in Green Bay, Wisconsin, issued a special weather statement warning motorists of the foggy conditions.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And that voice in my head — the one bullying me to work harder — was growing a little fainter by the day.
    Jack Korngold, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Those figures are a faint piece of context when positioned next to the two numbers that matter, 11 1/2 and 4 1/2, but are part of the total story this week.
    Justin Ray, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • When opinions overtake data, the path forward becomes shrouded in darkness, and the future becomes uncertain.
    Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025
  • But amid the hype around European defense, Muirhead conceded that the exit trajectory for many startups in the sector remains shrouded in uncertainty.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The twilight of empire was also a time of conspiracy theories about international Jewish cabals, said to manipulate power through money and shadowy networks in order to rule the world.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There is a matter-of-factness to DP Keisuke Imamura’s flat, bright images that creates a hyperreal eeriness all the more uneasy for being the polar opposite of a horror movie’s usual dark corners and shadowy depths.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Obnubilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obnubilated. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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