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- noun Plural form of
obfuscator .
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The obfuscators 'simple and direct motivation -- making money in the near term, which anyone can relate to -- combined with their resources and, as it turns out, propaganda talents, have meant that we are arguing the science long after it has been nailed down.
Janet Ritz: Investment Fund Chairman on Climate Change: Grantham Says Buy It 2010
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The obfuscators 'simple and direct motivation -- making money in the near term, which anyone can relate to -- combined with their resources and, as it turns out, propaganda talents, have meant that we are arguing the science long after it has been nailed down.
Janet Ritz: Investment Fund Chairman on Climate Change: Grantham Says Buy It 2010
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One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as “truth”, “reality”, or “objectivity”, which narrow people's vision and ways of being in the world.
Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009
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Unfortunately like an alleged rapist who is found to be innocent the allegations themselves stick and even if as with the jenin libel Israel is found to be innocent of war crimes obfuscators like you will still peddle the lies as truth.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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This seems to directly deny Milgrom the support he hoped Rawlins would give him and his fellow obfuscators.
Hello to Lionel R Milgrom Jack of Kent 2009
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Some obfuscators wag their finger at cap-and-trade legislation, scolding it as "cap-and-tax" legislation.
Bill Chameides: Cap and Trade Part 1: It's About the Cap, Stupid 2009
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This hateful group of obstructionists, obfuscators and oddballs who think and act with strategic precision, from highjacking the malleable minds at the grassroots level to appealing to the strict constructionists in the Supreme Court, are slowly but surely dismantling any promise of progress.
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By harnessing confidence in core instincts we are less likely to fall prey to the plethora of obfuscators who are too displaced in corralling a power base of foot soldiers trained to rush off and grab the most pertinent set of legal counter-arguments or proffer crafted media “evidence” to close down an argument rather than exploring and drawing out some of the painful abstract for examination in a healthy open truthful productive discussion.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But rather than treating the voices who call for this as allies, more and more secularists treat them as obfuscators whose efforts only block what REALLY needs to happen.
Sinful Certainty James F. McGrath 2009
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Talking softly over the shimmering piano notes, the man who - like most everyone in the room came up short of where they dreamed they would be - offered a truth so far beneath the surface, it struck a blow for the defiance of hope in ways most churches, self-help groups and obfuscators for the haves can't glimpse.
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