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• I found myself in an obscure wood.
• His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• The obscure bird / Clamoured the livelong night.
• the obscure corners of the earth
• The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
• an obscure passage or inscription;    The speaker made obscure references to little-known literary works.
• They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak, with obscured lights.
• There is scarce any duty which has been so obscured by the writings of learned men as this.
• But Richmond[...]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
• I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity.
• How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it.
• We threw away convention, and went in search of the obscure and the unknown.