recondite

Example Sentences

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Success and failure in the movie business is the most recondite of qualities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024

Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023

In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022

By all accounts, Mr. Wilson was erudite about the recondite, a prolific author of some 60 books on topics ranging from angels to pirate utopias and all manner of renegade religions.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2022

By various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent warty substance.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson