obscurely

obscure | American Dictionary

obscure
adjective
us/əbˈskjʊr, ɑb-/

obscureadjective (UNKNOWN)

not known to many people:
an obscure 18th-century painter

obscureadjective (UNCLEAR)

unclear and difficult to understand or see:
Official policy has changed for reasons that remain obscure.

Examples of obscure

obscure
The trials, too, which came and went, give the impression of a ' rise ' and then a ' decline ' of magic, obscuring its perennial and persistent nature.
To just lump them under an umbrella label of ' borrowing ' or ' calquing ' is an oversimplification which obscures the different possible historical scenarios for each case.
Thus, experimental effects on a highly sensitive and reliable measure may be obscured by averaging with less precise measures.
The former gave way to the system of recursive rewrite rules in the 1960s, obscuring the formal similarity of the two processes.
Such an apparently decisive choice of collective identity obscures the undercurrents of ideological struggle in the region.
Hence, although this view is a fundamental one of which experienced topos theorists are fully aware, it tends to get obscured in the exposition.
The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states.
However, this sectoral diversity obscures some politically salient concentrations.
He brings a magnifying glass to the complexities obscured by existing models.
Coverage has remained stable but this obscures a narrowing gender gap in coverage.
In realistic programs the algorithm can become entirely obscured by the dynamic-behaviour code.
Afterwards, it became a process that obscured the line between music and 'otherness'.
If an intrusive consonant is underlyingly present, it must be a final element, the presence of which is obscured in certain environments due to vocalisation.
Stating meaning in any other way obscures it.
The reported sectoral pattern thus obscures inherent deviations.
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