recondite

Example Sentences

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The wisdom-of-crowds argument presupposes that the masses possess some recondite knowledge that can be unlocked by allowing individuals to express themselves as part of an anonymous mob.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

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

Many seem like remnants from a circa-2000 vogue for recondite, inscrutable maps and diagrams, produced by artists like Matthew Ritchie, Mark Lombardi and Franz Ackermann.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy