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The incident is still being investigated, but reports say a stowed wheelchair may have obscured a baggage handler's view of Mittens's cage.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025

"Trials conducted in countries where participants had previously received BCG vaccine as newborns or who had previous exposure to tuberculosis may have obscured any benefit from a BCG booster."

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

However, the lack of detail in the state-level data could have obscured measurable effects at the local level.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

Mr. Cuffari’s job was to figure out what happened — but he appears instead to have obscured the truth.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022

We are now in a position to understand and state the problem of our knowledge of the external world, and to remove various misunderstandings which have obscured the meaning of the problem.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand