recondite
Example Sentences
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They have steered clear of poems that are recondite while avoiding anything that smacks of greeting card sentiment.
From New York Times
So within three full working days of the crash, the Foreign Office had sided with a US interpretation of what McDonald described to the committee as “a recondite bit of law”.
From The Guardian
The book unfolds in vignettes organized according not to chronology but to the recondite rhymes, repetitions and echoes that Dodge observes winding through his life.
From New York Times
Even the most recondite texts surrendered to her chemically enhanced powers of concentration.
From New York Times
The learned and recondite disputes currently embroiling many conservatives, disputes about various doctrines of interpretive constitutional “originalism,” are often illuminating and sometimes conclusive in constitutional controversies.
From Washington Post
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