as in to confuse
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 obfuscate
More alarming, the Post found evidence that Gabbard tried to obfuscate details about the nature of her encounters with the Syrian dictator from congressional investigators and may have lied to her staff.
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Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
The backlash to Gibson’s revelation was swift, but the influencer continued to obfuscate details about her health.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
On the input side, these classifiers surround each query with a set of templates describing in detail what kind of harmful information to look out for, as well as the ways a user might try to obfuscate or encode requests for that information.
—Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025
The leather industry has been obfuscating the gravity of its environmental impacts, according to a new study from Collective Fashion Justice (CFJ).
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Jan. 2025
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Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
The backlash to Gibson’s revelation was swift, but the influencer continued to obfuscate details about her health.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
On the input side, these classifiers surround each query with a set of templates describing in detail what kind of harmful information to look out for, as well as the ways a user might try to obfuscate or encode requests for that information.
—Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025
The leather industry has been obfuscating the gravity of its environmental impacts, according to a new study from Collective Fashion Justice (CFJ).
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Obfuscate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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