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"Intentional or not, the label obscures an extraordinary story."

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

■ The term obscures rather than clarifies meaning.

Site Home Valerie Woolley 2012

The term obscures the true goal: to defeat radical fundamentalist Islam's goal of a worldwide Caliphate through militant jihad.

american democracy (FISA Bill) Bill Kerr 2008

There have long been black suburbs, ethnic suburbs, young singles suburbs, married-with-children suburbs, working-class suburbs, upper-middle affluent suburbs, retirement suburbs -- the label obscures everything important in politics.

Harold L. Wilensky: 2008: Democratic Sweep or A Near Miss? 2008

Too often, the fight for the title obscures other, important changes that will shape the sport not just on the grid, but off the track in 2011.

SI.com 2010

The use of this term obscures, I think, the real character of the causation, and has led to nothing but confusion.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

What the hullabaloo over "Taliban Dan" obscures is the barrage of in-your-face assaults by Grayson that built to this juncture.

Richard Hebert: 'Taliban Dan' Ad: Grayson's 'Bridge Too Far'? Richard Hebert 2010

What the hullabaloo over "Taliban Dan" obscures is the barrage of in-your-face assaults by Grayson that built to this juncture.

Richard Hebert: 'Taliban Dan' Ad: Grayson's 'Bridge Too Far'? Richard Hebert 2010

I kind of think the phrase obscures more than it reveals myself.

How Big A Graveyard? | ATTACKERMAN 2009

But for purposes of understanding, I suspect the word obscures more than it clarifies.

Should men be called feminists? 2006