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Adjective
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The crime thriller featured Benicio Del Toro’s breakout role as the incomprehensible low-level criminal Fred Fenster.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Feb. 2026 -
This effort to throttle transparency of a project that is already the subject of international derision is incomprehensible as well as offensive to the public’s right to know.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Jokic admitted last Sunday that he was concerned by the increasingly puzzling trend.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2026
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Why Dark Matter Matters Dark matter is one of the most puzzling components of our universe.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Lewis previously shared a vague post on social media after Del Rio's firing was initially reported in October.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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By contrast, Paramount offers only a vague promise to use tech from Papa Larry Ellison’s Oracle to reshape the creaky Paramount+ into something bigger and better.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Backrooms centers on two people who find a mysterious door in the basement of a furniture showroom.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Feb. 2026
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The mysterious founder of Shein made a rare public appearance Tuesday to hail local government support that helped the Chinese fast-fashion giant grow into a global juggernaut.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Storrie moves his body in ways inexplicable by science, and the physicality is both funny and hard to look away from.—
Rima Parikh,
Vulture,
1 Mar. 2026
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Snowflake is getting hit with inexplicable price-target cuts despite growing product revenue by 30% in its fourth quarter.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Fleming ends the piece by imagining a day when all the boomers show up on the White House lawn ominously holding their indecipherable Bitmoji over their heads.—
John Roy,
Vulture,
19 Feb. 2026
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The highway sign was nearly indecipherable beneath layers of stickers and graffiti.—
Josh Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Fads come, and fads go, and even small changes in platforms’ nebulous algorithms can drop you off the map overnight.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside,
26 Feb. 2026
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The drama is shot with a documentarian’s eye and unfolds in the ruins of an unnamed city, but its setting is far from nebulous — not least because of the presence of a few Palestinian flags.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2026
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The difference is that Fedorova isn’t merely half aware of the obscure sources of her own thrills but obsessed by them.—
Lillian Fishman,
New Yorker,
25 Feb. 2026
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These aren’t obscure selections.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Obfuscatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obfuscatory. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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