If we withhold or obscure the truth, we get self-protective falsehoods in return.

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Particularly egregious has been the Obama administration's determined effort to obscure whether we are even at war and with whom.

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Yes, we may have missed some obscure fact pattern.

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There certainly are ones which are complex or obscure, or even stories we consider downright loony.

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Those debates, however, obscure the more obvious point: We should be turning our attention -- and should have turned it long ago -- away from oil and toward greener options.

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In our reporting, we stumbled upon a scene from the DDT film on an obscure Web page.

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We need her in our life, and not as some obscure University Professor.

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And we think that the more we are making sure that banks aren't competing by how obscure their fine print is, but rather competing on the basis of the quality of their service and the terms of their loans, the better off consumers are going to be, and ultimately the better off banks are going to be as well.

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Eager to make money and produce the next best thing, we're no doubt aware that knowing the Supreme Court justices and obscure Thoreau quotes might make us seem intelligent, but this knowledge won't help us make payroll or write the next innovative software application.

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We had to reformat the internal drive completely, and had to hunt down some obscure instructions to help us do so.

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We collected many of the best-known names, but also some more-obscure labels.

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We all tend to focus on certain salient aspects of a problem, and these can obscure other aspects, which may be essential to consider.

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Ok, then what about the code that enables video call support in OS 3.2 or that protected engineering prototype we saw just one day before launch showing a cutout at precisely the same spot so as to not obscure whatever was underneath?

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