obfuscatory

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for obfuscatory
Adjective
  • When technology changes so quickly that even Millennials are shaking their heads at Gen Z’s incomprehensible habits, what chance do ageing parents have to stay a step ahead of their kids?
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Even though arrests have been made, first-degree murder charges have been filed and the victim laid to rest, this case remains an incomprehensible display of human malice.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This is somewhat puzzling because a core tenet of cosmology is that at sufficiently large intergalactic scales, the universe’s properties and structure should be essentially the same in all directions.
    Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2025
  • As biologists studied the problem in the years after the initial detection, however, some noticed a puzzling pattern.
    ByWarren Cornwall, science.org, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There are neither crude jokes nor wise-ass anecdotes, only quick, indecipherable bursts of jargon.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Researchers at the University of Oxford recently set out to read some of Tennyson’s indecipherable scribbles using advanced imaging techniques.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Maddox does not make vague threats toward people who run afoul of him.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The administration has been more vague, however, on programs such as classes that teach Black history.
    Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The weirdest, most inexplicable part of the bizarre spectacle?
    Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2025
  • President Trump has cited this supposedly inexplicable trend.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In the second episode, Arthur and his queen, Guinevere, are presiding over a feast when it is interrupted by a mysterious visitor, a blind harpist, guided into court by a white dog.
    Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Despite Shauna trying to blame her for all the mysterious things happening to her in season 3, Melissa says that Shauna is the problem, the real anti-hero, so to speak.
    Stacy Lambe, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For them, the cloud isn’t nebulous but a physical system that must be built, paid for, and maintained.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
  • This has created a nebulous and slightly contradictory public perception of AI.
    Jodi Daniels, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Republicans are expected to move the legislation on an obscure procedural track, known as reconciliation, which prevents the minority Democrats from blocking the package with a filibuster in the upper chamber.
    Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The third book currently in production is known as The Black Book, a collection of unmade inventions sourced from obscure patents filed all over the world; a fascinating ode to the limitless power of the human imagination.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Obfuscatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscatory. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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