Example Sentences

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Any general education environmental science course that ignores it is incomplete, or outright obfuscatory.

From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2023

They’ve also been obfuscatory: The officers, reportedly from DHS, are nameless and faceless, retreating and reappearing inside a kind of mist.

From Slate • Jul. 28, 2020

Whitaker was evasive and obfuscatory, but he specifically denied receiving an angry call from the president about the guilty plea of his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2019

He uses words or phrases that are unnecessary or obfuscatory but that he believes make him sound thoughtful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 13, 2017

The opacity of the central woman’s identity, though, feels obfuscatory rather than interestingly mysterious, and much of the male-female partnering is dominated by upside-down swirling lifts that are at first breathtaking, later oddly routine.

From New York Times • May 22, 2017