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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McAfee Developers have also updated the apps to better obfuscate their malicious functionality.
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
Farber harshly criticizes Cuba’s treatment of blacks, homosexuals, and political dissidents and exposes the Castro regime’s practice of obfuscating policy debates through character assassination.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2012
By then obfuscating the native library using the OLLVM obfuscator, Mandrake apps were even more stealthy.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
The combination of capitalism and a particular type of neoliberalism that we’ve all been seeped in and a certain consumer mentality has, for a while, obfuscated, or hid the question of class.
—Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
Farber harshly criticizes Cuba’s treatment of blacks, homosexuals, and political dissidents and exposes the Castro regime’s practice of obfuscating policy debates through character assassination.
—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2012
By then obfuscating the native library using the OLLVM obfuscator, Mandrake apps were even more stealthy.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024
The combination of capitalism and a particular type of neoliberalism that we’ve all been seeped in and a certain consumer mentality has, for a while, obfuscated, or hid the question of class.
—Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
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