obnubilated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for obnubilated
Adjective
  • The aspirational numbers are dazzling but many details are undefined, with much left to be decided down the road in a world fraught with geopolitical and economic impediments.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • Its purpose is no longer unclear or undefined; the industry recognizes it as a solid platform for experienced directors whose films do well in theaters.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The team notes that the gases are chemically indistinguishable from gases present in volcanic rocks from Hawaiʻi, where volcanism is fueled by a mantle plume.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • Musically, the song is indistinguishable from most modern country — a plangent guitar melody leading the way, followed by the sinister percussive drop of a trap beat.
    Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • For decades, the lighthouse's keeper rang bells during foggy conditions but also maintained a log of the river's conditions — and, at times, rescued people in distress, according to the Journal News, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Michael P. McKinney, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • Cataracts are a condition that causes the eye's natural lens to become foggy, leading to blurry vision.13 A Quick Review Astigmatism is a common condition in which the cornea is oval or egg-shaped.
    Carrie Madormo, Health, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • Fortunately, telescopic technology has come a long way in the past 95 years, with deep surveys that can capture the passage of a faint object.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 May 2025
  • In Court Musk Announces His Exit From Trump Administration—What To Know The faint signal from navigation satellites is easy to jam.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Financial support, in the form of a shadowy investment club that purports to lift up and empower women.
    Dwyer Murphy June 6, Literary Hub, 6 June 2025
  • Resilience was targeting the top of the moon, a less forbidding place than the shadowy bottom.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite cloudy skies, daytime temperatures will reach into the 90s.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2025
  • Of course, that was actually a cloudy front moving in, which made for some San Francisco-like views as fog shrouded the city’s skyline and only the tops of the tallest buildings poked through the clouds.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • The purpose of Memorial Day also has become fuzzier because there are ever fewer veterans to tell the story.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
  • Her wish comes true in the form of a gleefully chaotic fuzzy blue creature who is the combination of a rambunctious toddler, puppy and koala, with a toothy grin, deadly claws and an irresistible butt wiggle.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Within the voids, sophisticated observations can detect faint hints of structures, like small, dim dwarf galaxies dotting the vast expanses.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 6 June 2025
  • And, quite concretely, reading has always struck me as a passport to the world, one in which characters are more real than actual people, where values are more intense than in the dim light of reality, where characters fly up into destinies rather than paddle around in ambiguity.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 June 2025
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“Obnubilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obnubilated. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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