abstruse

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Mr. Barnes has long brought something exotic to English literature, but never anything so abstruse as to become alienating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 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

The particle is part of a concept called the Higgs mechanism that was added to the standard model in the 1970s to explain an abstruse but important puzzle.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 27, 2024

They looked almost comically abstruse, as if they might be used as paddles in the hazing rituals of a math fraternity.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

At sixteen, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s famously abstruse masterpiece Principia Mathematica.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell