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obfuscates

  • present tense form of obfuscate (3rd person singular).

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His bad-boy swagger externally obfuscates his heart of gold, but his goodness and morality are apparent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

That’s how power obfuscates unseemly machinations: by claiming to be doing the opposite.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2025

It was a scene rarely seen in Western Washington, which so often obfuscates celestial phenomena with clouds stretching so far into the horizon you wonder if they ever end.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

The rhetoric that a job is a passion obfuscates reality: It is an economic contract, Simone Stolzoff argues.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

You drink St. Emilion or still hock; I drink water from the well or the cup that cheers but not obfuscates.

From Philistia by Allen, Grant

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