as in obscurity
the quality or state of being mostly or completely unknown
the namelessness of the builders of the Mayan pyramids is no way diminishes the greatness of their achievement
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Noun
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His sister’s rationale for sticking with Malassezia was that the name’s obscurity would shield it from scrutiny.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
26 May 2025 -
Less visible are the civil rights struggles its Asian American community fought to attain. State of play: Though figures like Wong Kim Ark have received more attention in recent years, there are still a plethora who remain in obscurity.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
22 May 2025
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And then there’s the quiet stuff—travel, visuals, conversations, even silence.—
Zoya Hasan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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It could be heard out on the concourse and the staircase and on the street, a kind of silence that could not be moved.—
Mike Vorkunov,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The sterile flies proceeded to, well, screw the continent’s wild populations into oblivion, and in 2006, an invisible barrier was established at the Darién Gap, the jungle that straddles the Panama-Colombia border, to cordon the screwworm-free north off from the south.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2025
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Even one of these incidents could have been enough to break a player and send him off into oblivion.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
22 May 2025
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Also of note: The Beavers don’t have much NIL money compared to other top-10 programs, according to multiple sources inside and outside the program who spoke on the condition of anonymity.—
Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The woman shared her story under the condition of anonymity and took the stand under the name Mia and was identified as Victim-4.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
30 May 2025
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“Namelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/namelessness. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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