abstruse
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Much to his dismay, the London Times published a story that drew heavily on his research titled An Electronic Brain: Solving Abstruse Problems; Valves with a Memory.
From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2018
Abstruse securities were more difficult to value, and multitiered pyramids of debts were far more susceptible to collapse.
From BusinessWeek • Apr. 8, 2010
Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Fine are the laws which guide the good, Abstruse, and hardly understood; Only the soul, enthroned within The breast of each, knows right from sin.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Abstruse mathematical problems which had defied solution for centuries began to appear easy.
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham
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