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
The renderings, which showed an imposing new East Wing roughly a city block long, would be longer than the West Wing and almost completely obfuscating the view of the Treasury Building from the White House's South Lawn.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
The Kumbaya of the Olympics must not obfuscate or mask this reality.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
So their needs may be obfuscated, obscured even, from them!
—Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
Lawyers for the group contend that the city is willfully obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
The Kumbaya of the Olympics must not obfuscate or mask this reality.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2026
So their needs may be obfuscated, obscured even, from them!
—Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
Lawyers for the group contend that the city is willfully obfuscating to cover up its inadequate efforts to live up to its settlement.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obfuscate
confuse
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As if that wasn’t confusing enough, not all Christians agree on what day of the calendar that specific Sunday is.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2026
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This was not to be confused with the Ulster Volunteer Force or the Ulster Defence Association, both terrorist organizations that vehemently favored the link with Britain.—
Colm Tóibín,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Obfuscate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscate. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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