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  • verb Present participle of obfuscate.

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Examples

  • You know their lying and obfuscating is out of hand when even the traditional media is on to their game.

    01/12/2006 2006

  • The real problem here isn†™ t that Wallace Sr. †™ s brashness but the right-wing talking heads†™ intense and concentrated propaganda in obfuscating the general public of the true facts of this Iraq war: Like George W. Bush, the Iraq war is a Big Fat Lie!

    Think Progress » Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Wallace 2005

  • The latter 'obfuscating' characteristic has often been interpreted as amateurish ineptitude, as if The Fall was a half-hearted project, a casual undertaking to be judged alongside the part-time idiot-brained antics of Fall plagiarists from the Nightingales to Pavement.

    FallNews - all mud and witches 1998

  • The CPI-M, which fiercely opposed the India-US nuclear deal, accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of 'obfuscating' facts about the launch of Israeli satellites and alleged this collaboration was part of the 'overall India-Israel-US axis'.

    India eNews 2009

  • The CPI-M, which fiercely opposed the India-US nuclear deal, accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of 'obfuscating' facts about the launch of Israeli satellites and alleged this collaboration was part of the 'overall India-Israel-US axis'.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • "obfuscating" whether additional funding for collecting delinquent taxes had actually yielded any results.

    Lead Stories from AOL 2010

  • To increase the protection of applications, developers can add additional components such as obfuscating application code or altering the reference implementation. "

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2010

  • To increase the protection of applications, developers can add additional components such as obfuscating application code or altering the reference implementation. "

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2010

  • The Quran also admonishes people against sowing dissension and obfuscating truth.

    Clergy Leadership Network 2009

  • What it does get him -- from the John Cleese character who originally sold it to him -- is a barrage of obfuscating re-specifications of the bird's condition.

    David Coates: Washington Woes and the Problem of the Parrot David Coates 2011

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