The phrase "advances obscure" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe unclear or hidden progress in a certain context, but as it stands, it lacks clarity.
Example: "The research team made advances obscure to the public, leaving many questions unanswered."
Alternatives: "unclear progress" or "hidden advancements".
And next season, that settled, we can get back to people flaying their enemies, selling cockleshells to advance obscure revenge plots, romancing their siblings, and poisoning each other at weddings.
In fact, they represented the fruits of hyperactive gambling in the Fed's monetary casino — a place where the inside players obtain their chips at no cost from the Fed-controlled money markets, and are warned well in advance, by obscure wording changes in the Fed's policy statements, about any pending shift in the gambling odds.
Yuri Milner, who made his fortune from investments in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and Groupon, has launched a clutch of awards to recognise advances in the obscure field of fundamental physics, which aims to understand the basic laws of nature.
While understanding human biology is essential for medical advances, measurement limitations obscure critical details.
In fact, Christianity advanced from an obscure sect to the official religion of the Roman empire by focusing on women.
Zell hates black-tie events, so guests receive T-shirts in advance, which feature obscure clues to the identity of the evening's performer.
For decades, high poverty rates among new immigrants have weighed down statistics on Hispanics and obscured advances of latter-generation Latino Americans.
And indeed we may add an appendix to that old saw: any sufficiently advanced, or sufficiently obscure, technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Public resistance obscured quieter advances elsewhere.
Either the Shockers or the Explorers will advance, no matter how obscure their universities, or their mascots, may be.
