abstruse
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On the job, Greenspan was a known abstruse speaker who admitted that his opaque, twisting rhetoric was a purposeful strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
That might sound like an abstruse philosophical argument, but he says it's a hot debate within the scientific community.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2025
Higgs, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and spent almost his entire career at the University of Edinburgh, could be as retiring as his work was abstruse.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 10, 2024
After weeks of sometimes abstruse testimony, it took them only four hours to reach a verdict.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
On March 19, 2005, alone in his office with the door closed and the shades drawn, reading an abstruse textbook on credit derivatives, Michael Burry got an idea: credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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