abstruse
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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
The decades-old concept could explain many things, such as where WIMPs come from, but its main job is to solve a more abstruse problem.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2024
They looked almost comically abstruse, as if they might be used as paddles in the hazing rituals of a math fraternity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
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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