How to Use obfuscate in a Sentence

obfuscate

verb
  • Politicians keep obfuscating the issues.
  • Their explanations only serve to obfuscate and confuse.
  • Some scammers are truly lazy, as was the case here, and don’t even try to obfuscate it.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • So their needs may be obfuscated, obscured even, from them!
    — Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Far too much happens in the shadows or is obfuscated by weasel words.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But to Smith, those exceptions can obfuscate the work that still needs to be done.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Others have worked just as hard to obfuscate what is really going on at their schools.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
  • This trailer does a decent job of obfuscating the major plots points of the film.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2017
  • In that construct, the strong performance of the few can obfuscate the mediocrity of the many.
    — Christopher Lynch, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than own up when the fraud was revealed, VW obfuscated and lied.
    — The Editorial Board, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
  • Words continued to come out of Lue’s mouth, but most of them were designed to obfuscate.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Often, these works try to obfuscate the mechanisms of power that drive them.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Easy to dupe the electorate, to greenwash, to spin, to obfuscate, and to sell the politics of greed.
    — Christine Winter, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Part of the problem is that disclosure has become a way to obfuscate rather than to inform.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Nov. 2015
  • There are ways traders can obfuscate their transactions and hide their locations.
    — Nic Puckrin, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The sampling is very subtle, and almost a little obfuscated by the rest of the score.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Also people may view it as attempting to obfuscate the real facts or come off as lack of respect.
    — Martin Zwilling, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • From here, things get hazy because the details are missing—or at least highly obfuscated.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • The opposite is true as well—an overwhelming data dump can be designed to obfuscate the facts on the ground.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • But statistics have a strange way of obfuscating the magnitude and depth of the damage.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • To say otherwise is simply to distract and obfuscate.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • What the fourth-quarter comebacks obfuscate is that Boston has to build a 20-point lead in the first place!
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 10 May 2025
  • There was no way to obfuscate the identity of the other family members.
    — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Crypto transactions are recorded on a ledger that anyone can see and cannot be altered or obfuscated.
    — Nic Puckrin, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Indeed, if vertical stripes obfuscate a cat in the tall grass, as common sense might suggest, more cats would have evolved this marking.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2010
  • In those days, though, the word hadn’t slipped into obfuscating overuse yet; even Clinton was able to take a small step beyond its veil.
    — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • There’s a new mode that will allow those users to obfuscate their location and your destination in the browser.
    — Gear Team, Wired, 7 June 2021
  • Then there are tumbler attacks, which rely on new techniques to obfuscate the origin of funds for a transaction.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The Kumbaya of the Olympics must not obfuscate or mask this reality.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • In response to some of the most pointed queries, the company offered replies that obfuscated the issues.
    — Colin Lecher, The Verge, 11 June 2018

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