arcane
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Maybe that is true for the 500 biggest U.S. stocks but less so for a relatively arcane and less-researched sector such as BDCs.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
It’s been a crash course for him, he said, on the often arcane laws that govern who gets to stay in America and who doesn’t.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026
Sometimes members of the audience would pass out while he tirelessly ranted about some arcane subject that mattered little, but he would draw applause nonetheless.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026
It is true that basing a fiction on a lot of arcane knowledge runs the risk of leaving the uninitiated confused or simply unengaged.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
The paper, with dozens of tables and arcane symbols to denote traits and variants, was challenging even for statisticians.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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