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or obscurantic
as in shadowy
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obscurant
Adjective
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Unregulated and marked by , this shadowy industry faces growing scrutiny over both ethical issues and public health risks.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025 -
Blackmailed by a shadowy figure, Lazarus, she’s forced by Lazarus to punish other rapists who have not been brought to justice.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The play is now set in a purposely indistinct time period.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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Often, the ad is for an indistinct mobile game featuring a woman with a freezing baby who must choose between spending her fifty gold coins on either building a working fireplace or repairing a broken window that’s letting in an icy breeze.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Your brain is foggier, your body is slower, and your focus is weaker.—
Tess Brigham,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Steady rain and foggy conditions, followed by colder temperatures and strong winds, are expected in the city beginning Thursday night, forecasters said.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Thin lines and hazy glowing colors make the towering, randomized geometric structures look like something from a French comic book.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
16 Mar. 2025
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In the late 1970s, Saturn’s odd moon Titan, a hazy orange world, was expecting visitors — first, NASA’s Pioneer 11 probe, then the twin Voyager spacecraft.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Fort Shafter sits between the misty, dark-green mountains of the Ko’olau Range and the Ke’ehi Lagoon.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2025
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Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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My duties typically involved being sent to the nearby New York Public Library to hunt down some faint memory scratching at Carter’s brain.—
Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Most of the files are scans of documents, and some are blurred or have become faint or difficult to read in the decades since Kennedy's assassination.—
Joel Shannon,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This was a record-breaking 100 minutes of the world according to Trump — an address largely indistinguishable from a campaign-style speech.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
5 Mar. 2025
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Another year, another Oscars, 97th in a series, presented live from the Dolby Theatre, on the former site of the Hollywood Hotel, structurally indistinguishable from Oscars that were — pandemic variations notwithstanding — and Oscars that will be.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Palestinian families who had returned to live among the ruins of the devastated neighborhood during the ceasefire once again fled, piling mattresses and belongings on donkey carts and escaping on muddy roads.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
20 Mar. 2025
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Tidy up all those tight spaces—tub seals, sink drains, car vents—or spiff up a pair of muddy sneakers.—
Ella Field,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Obscurant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obscurant. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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