obnubilated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obnubilated
Adjective
  • Move the person into a shaded, cool area, remove their outer clothing and work to cool them down as quickly as possible, preferably with cold water or an ice bath.
    David Yeomans, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • Dedicated shaded areas will also be essential for PR check-ins, helping prevent iPads from overheating and shutting down in direct sunlight.
    Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 23 June 2026
Adjective
  • Though editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (a Yorgos Lanthimos regular) cuts the film with brisk concision, there’s also a welcome temporal elasticity here — the sense that life can change in the blink of an eye, but also stall for undefined passages.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • The city and the Stars will discuss further plans for the arena and the district through their undefined negotiation period.
    Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • In another instance, investigators identified a gray button on a test-taker's shirt as a concealed camera.
    Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • Kentucky lawmakers will likely let our columnist Joe Gerth down again by overriding the veto of a bill that would allow 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to carry concealed guns.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Bruss and colleagues identified a physically motivated alternative that formalizes system composition and gives rise to a class of theories that can be formulated with real numbers and yet are indistinguishable from standard quantum mechanics, even at the experimental level.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
  • Dressed in all black, the guards look indistinguishable from police officers.
    Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
Adjective
  • Within days of the pool being refilled in early June, the water had turned green and algae-clouded amid a heat wave in Washington, DC that saw temperatures reach 100 degrees.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Smoke clouded swaths of Los Angeles for a sixth day Monday, after a fire broke out at a warehouse in the Boyle Heights area.
    Adela Suliman, NBC news, 22 June 2026
Adjective
  • Look for wildflowers and endemic fauna on the Tomales Point Trail, which rambles for nearly 10 miles on this special, skinny peninsula, delivering gorgeous, foggy views of the Pacific Ocean.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
  • And from there, the details become even foggier, at least from the POV of the White House.
    Tina Nguyen, The Verge, 17 June 2026
Adjective
  • There’s an eroding three-mile stretch of Highway 101 in California’s remote northwest corner that hugs fog-shrouded cliffs between the redwood forest and the Pacific Ocean.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Yet the premature death of the young woman and muse who made the painting possible remains shrouded in mystery.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 June 2026
Adjective
  • Folks along the coast have felt this as a deep, persistent, cloudy and breezy marine layer that has kept some spots on the west side of San Francisco into the 50s these past few days.
    Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Next chance of showers returns by Sunday evening Several weak disturbances will traverse the Upper Ohio Valley, leading to partly cloudy skies, but with deep moisture scoured out, rain chances will be absent for the most part Friday through Sunday afternoon.
    Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 17 June 2026
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“Obnubilated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obnubilated. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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