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obfuscates

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present tense third-person singular of obfuscate

as in confuses

to make (something) unclear to the understanding irrelevant matters that only serve to obfuscate the fundamental issue of guilt or innocence

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Recent Examples of obfuscates The union on Tuesday announced a partnership with Cloak, a software company that obfuscates documents to AI models but not human readers. — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026 Instead, Cubans turn to the internet, reading abroad what their government obfuscates or denies at home. — Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 9 July 2026 His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent. — Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 The president obfuscates or lies; the press contradicts him; the Pentagon’s own investigators find against him; senators of both parties demand answers; and the polls turn against the war. — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 27 May 2026 Director Antonio Campos shoots this exchange in the shadows, a choice that only obfuscates this pivotal moment further. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025 Local students tend to know about the province’s nationalistic perspective, due to their high school curriculum, but this deliberately (and understandably) obfuscates the larger Canadian picture to try to foster a firmer attachment to Quebec’s language and culture. — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025 Gating much of that control behind certain subscription tiers further obfuscates what’s possible. — PC Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025

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The legal system dehumanizes her, the support group confuses her, and one of her friends painfully disappoints her.

— Carey Purcell, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
This confuses each Nyota but also those around them, who note that the Nyotas have rather quickly assumed new hairstyles but also that neither is behaving quite like herself.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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Having first revealed her AMD diagnosis in 2012, which is a disease that blurs a person’s central vision by causing damage to the macula, Dench has discussed her potential retirement in recent years.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026
And again, that just blurs the lines between what things are supposed to be.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026

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