esoteric
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This year’s Nobel prize celebrates work that started with a question that may sound esoteric: how do Chlamydomonas swim toward light?
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
A: Where ETFs probably aren’t going to be as good is in the more esoteric crypto world, like meme coins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Probably not, but the Huntington’s “Strange Science” is typically an esoteric exploration of the weird.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He largely espouses esoteric prognostications of how 8 billion human deaths could be wrought by hostile machines, and even though many that admit this outcome is unlikely, it takes up a lot of their attention.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
If these basic principles can be misinterpreted, it shouldn’t be surprising that more esoteric mathematics can be, too.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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