abstruse

Example Sentences

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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 Literature

Also, his estimate arose from abstruse economic formulas and lots of magic asterisks.

From Los Angeles Times

That might sound like an abstruse philosophical argument, but he says it's a hot debate within the scientific community.

From Salon

It’s not exactly secret, but it’s abstruse enough that they hope most people, who aren’t fully conversant with the complexities of the program, won’t get the drift.

From Los Angeles Times

I wasn’t expecting to write such a sentence about an abstract and some might even say abstruse Sondheim musical that has had only one short-lived Broadway revival.

From Los Angeles Times