abstruse
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He rashly gave up a part in Lanford Wilson’s “The Hot L. Baltimore” in 1973 for the lead in a production of the abstruse Peter Handke play “Kaspar.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
On the job, Greenspan was a known abstruse speaker who admitted that his opaque, twisting rhetoric was a purposeful strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
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
A figure of undisputed authority in some of the most abstruse corners of computing, Conway was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
The passage can be cryptic, abstruse, arcane; these are symptoms of the curse of knowledge.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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