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recondite

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


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The wisdom-of-crowds argument presupposes that the masses possess some recondite knowledge that can be unlocked by allowing individuals to express themselves as part of an anonymous mob.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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