obscureness

Definition of obscurenessnext

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Noun
  • To remove the ambiguity and resulting food waste, Assembly Bill 660 was signed into law and goes into effect July 1, which ultimately will reduce the phrases allowed on packages to just two.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Implications for Michigan's anti-terrorism law The Hopkinson case highlighted ambiguity in Michigan's anti-terrorism law.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The Federal Reserve is reversing a generation-long trend toward transparency, shifting back to strategic opacity under new Chair Kevin Warsh.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Firms that publish pricing, deliverables, and real client case studies on their own websites offer buyers more confidence, because the industry standard has historically been opacity.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • As Raul grapples with telling the story of Elsa’s life, he’s confronted by the murkiness of borrowing from real people for the purposes of fiction.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 May 2026
  • After Daniel Jones tore his ACL late last season, the quarterback position has some murkiness for the Colts entering 2026.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • If not for the hole, Johnson may have remained in relative obscurity in Spring Grove, a graveyard where the city’s historical elite are interred next to people who never made it into the news.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • The first point is that its obscurity contributes to its popularity.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 28 June 2026
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“Obscureness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obscureness. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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