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
His books hum with the flavorful and recondite language of espionage.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2020
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
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