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- verb Present participle of
obscure .
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Examples
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Emotional, immovable, perpetual, by the stream that called to the gods, ten gods, of knowledge occurring to rock, or ignorance of the name obscuring daylight.
precious body Jerry Ratch 2011
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The caveats there, almost embarrassed — and embarrassing, too, as Mailer grunts that if he lost his country, he might also lose his fictional subject — are less important than the admission that they are half intended to qualify and cannot entirely succeed in obscuring: the gruff admission that our Norman could be a patriot after all.
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The caveats there, almost embarrassed — and embarrassing, too, as Mailer grunts that if he lost his country, he might also lose his fictional subject — are less important than the admission that they are half intended to qualify and cannot entirely succeed in obscuring: the gruff admission that our Norman could be a patriot after all.
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The couplets are so well matched there is no point in obscuring them and a director should give in and run with them.
Ashland: The Comedy of Errors joshenglish 2008
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The caveats there, almost embarrassed — and embarrassing, too, as Mailer grunts that if he lost his country, he might also lose his fictional subject — are less important than the admission that they are half intended to qualify and cannot entirely succeed in obscuring: the gruff admission that our Norman could be a patriot after all.
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That is, the content of C is not important, only its function in obscuring U.
Real Motivations 2007
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The role of subspecies in obscuring avian biological diversity and misleading conservation policy.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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As she says this, she's pressing Xander's head into her neck and boobs, once again obscuring his face - and I envy her.
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Someone could write a valuable monograph on the use of question-begging names and epithets, and their effect in obscuring political controversies.
As I Please 1945
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We came clown and, to our dismay, there was a fine drizzle of rain obscuring the whole countryside.
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