abstruse

Example Sentences

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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 members kept peppering Daszak with questions about abstruse matters of science and the grant-making process, only to rudely cut him off when he tried to respond.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

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

The passage can be cryptic, abstruse, arcane; these are symptoms of the curse of knowledge.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker