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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
obscure .
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Examples
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He drove easily, hand resting lightly on the gear shift, his expression obscured by the sunglasses he’d pulled from the door pocket.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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He drove easily, hand resting lightly on the gear shift, his expression obscured by the sunglasses he’d pulled from the door pocket.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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He drove easily, hand resting lightly on the gear shift, his expression obscured by the sunglasses he’d pulled from the door pocket.
All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994
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Being obscured is the intent to protect the destitute by means testing the benefits.
No Entitlements Crisis?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Utterly obscured is the number that really matters, the absolute benefit (Brawley did not respond to an email requesting comment).
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Being obscured is the intent to protect the destitute by means testing the benefits.
Kinsley on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One thing that constant filibustering has obscured is that the Democratic majority in the Senate is actually marginally stronger than their majority in the House.
Matthew Yglesias » Setback for Public Option Revival as Rockefeller Says No 2010
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Utterly obscured is the number that really matters, the absolute benefit (Brawley did not respond to an email requesting comment).
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The writers and stories the Anglophone readers are missing remain obscured for the rest of the world too, since most of the publishers, editors and fans can read their own language and English.
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They were neither peaceful nor modest instances of historical agency — in spite of the prevailing social paradigm which rigidly curtailed the scope of women's activities and life choices across the social classes and which persisted well into the twentieth century — and nor were their contributions obscured from the historical record.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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