How to Use obfuscate in a Sentence

obfuscate

verb

• Politicians keep obfuscating the issues.
• Their explanations only serve to obfuscate and confuse.
• In that construct, the strong performance of the few can obfuscate the mediocrity of the many.
  — Christopher Lynch, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• This trailer does a decent job of obfuscating the major plots points of the film.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2017
• Part of the problem is that disclosure has become a way to obfuscate rather than to inform.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Nov. 2015
• But many of the changes obfuscate the intended meaning.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
• But to Smith, those exceptions can obfuscate the work that still needs to be done.
  — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Others have worked just as hard to obfuscate what is really going on at their schools.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• Rather than own up when the fraud was revealed, VW obfuscated and lied.
  — The Editorial Board, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2017
• Words continued to come out of Lue’s mouth, but most of them were designed to obfuscate.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• This stems in part from both the urgency of the problem and the time wasted already through ignoring or obfuscating it.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• The opposite is true as well—an overwhelming data dump can be designed to obfuscate the facts on the ground.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
• Often, these works try to obfuscate the mechanisms of power that drive them.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• In response to some of the most pointed queries, the company offered replies that obfuscated the issues.
  — Colin Lecher, The Verge, 11 June 2018
• There was no way to obfuscate the identity of the other family members.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
• Reducing both oil and the disease to little more than economic forces obfuscates another side of the equation, in which the virus is a thing in the world.
  — On Barak, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
• But the limitations of Hollywood screenwriting and the choice of a comet as a metaphor tend to obfuscate the true nature of the problem.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2021
• There’s a new mode that will allow those users to obfuscate their location and your destination in the browser.
  — Gear Team, Wired, 7 June 2021
• This point alone should be a lodestar of the hearings: Elections matter for the court, even if most of what the court does is obfuscated and footnoted.
  — Neil S. Siegel, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• Of course the real flow numbers had to be guessed at by smart people, because BP has been allowed to lie and obfuscate for a month.
  — Mark Warren, Esquire, 21 May 2010
• Yet no one has figured out how to efficiently obfuscate even the small bootstrapping program.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2015
• Stakeholder capitalism is used as a way to obfuscate what counts as success in business.
  — Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• Tycoons also use them to obfuscate their business practices.
  — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
• So the best way to do it might be to obfuscate things and offer buyers access to toys that might not seem to be related to No Way Home.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 2 July 2021
• Court officials who don’t know much about it or who deliberately obfuscate make the task even harder.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
• Yes, the enormity and danger of this proposal is obfuscated by the involvement of Trump.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2019
• Indeed, if vertical stripes obfuscate a cat in the tall grass, as common sense might suggest, more cats would have evolved this marking.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2010
• China’s deny-and-obfuscate strategy at the outset helped speed the coronavirus’s spread around the world.
  — Harry Cheadle, The New Republic, 23 June 2020
• In those days, though, the word hadn’t slipped into obfuscating overuse yet; even Clinton was able to take a small step beyond its veil.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 19 June 2018
• But this obfuscates the excessive pension promises that politicians have made.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 July 2018

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024