abstruse
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The tax applies to town houses worth more than $5 million, as well as condos and co-ops valued at more than $1 million, according to the city government’s abstruse methodology—and rates are steep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Mr. Barnes has long brought something exotic to English literature, but never anything so abstruse as to become alienating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Also, his estimate arose from abstruse economic formulas and lots of magic asterisks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
That might sound like an abstruse philosophical argument, but he says it's a hot debate within the scientific community.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2025
We appreciate the abstruse concept of equations breaking down through an example, division by zero, which we can understand for ourselves in either of two ways.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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