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  • noun Plural form of obscurant.

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Examples

  • Urge that Israel take all feasible precautions to avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, cease attacks that assume that political entities are valid military targets, and not use white phosphorus "obscurants" in densely populated areas.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • Urge that Israel take all feasible precautions to avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, cease attacks that assume that political entities are valid military targets, and not use white phosphorus "obscurants" in densely populated areas.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • Urge that Israel take all feasible precautions to avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, cease attacks that assume that political entities are valid military targets, and not use white phosphorus "obscurants" in densely populated areas.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

  • Because of its remoteness, Dugway is ideal to test smokes and obscurants that are used to mask U.S. troop movements from the enemy.

    Dugway Proving Ground National Park 2007

  • Smokes and obscurants comprise a category of materials that are not used militarily as direct chemical agents.

    Think Progress » Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’ 2005

  • Well, that would be dumb obscurants like you and the drug addict pissing on our beautiful Earth.

    Think Progress » Limbaugh: Stranded Polar Bears Are ‘Just Playing Around…Like Your Cat Goes To Its Litter Box’ 2007

  • You'll find a stuffy basement hotbox packed to the ceiling with the most elusive items in the noise underground: cassettes affixed to shards of vinyl or slipped into fuzzy pouches, CD-Rs packaged in seven-inch sleeves, seven-inches packaged in tin foil, a record where the grooves are lathe-cut onto a coke mirror . . . everything from mutant monoliths like Merzbow and John Wiese to obscurants like Cream Corn Barf Extravaganza.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • The Wilsonville, Ore., company sells gadgets like portable thermal imagers­, which law enforcement or military personnel can use to track targets obscured by darkness, dust, haze or other obscurants.

    Beltway Bet: Flir SystemsFlir Systems: Seeing Beyond Government Sales 2006

  • For instance, chloride obscurants are particularly effective liquid obscurants.

    FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support United States Army 1998

  • It has fielded obscurants, including chaff, capable of attenuating such wavelengths.

    FM 100-61 Chptr 14 NBC and Smoke Support United States Army 1998

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