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
After weeks of sometimes abstruse testimony, it took them only four hours to reach a verdict.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024
The decades-old concept could explain many things, such as where WIMPs come from, but its main job is to solve a more abstruse problem.
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
We appreciate the abstruse concept of equations breaking down through an example, division by zero, which we can understand for ourselves in either of two ways.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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