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recondite

[rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt] / ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt /


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Less a recondite modernist experiment than a grandly mysterious yet accessible achievement, the composition marked a profound shift in 20th-century classical music.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 2026

Success and failure in the movie business is the most recondite of qualities.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2024

Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.

From Seattle Times Dec. 6, 2023

In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite.

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2022

A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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