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The only place careers and criminals both get to start over.
means The state of being unknown, forgotten, or impossible to see clearly — whether that's a person nobody's heard of or a fact buried too deep to find.
from From Latin obscuritas, built on obscurus meaning 'dark, dim, covered over' — possibly related to ob- ('over') plus a root tied to covering or shading. The Latin word did double duty from the start, meaning both literal darkness and the figurative fog of being unclear or unknown — a sense English borrowed wholesale in the 1300s-1400s and never let go of.
- etymology
- from obscurus, meaning covered or dark
- career irony
- everyone famous was once furiously unknown
- survival tactic
- predators and tax evasion both love it
- internet age
- now requires effort to achieve, not avoid