abstruse

Example Sentences

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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

Higgs, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and spent almost his entire career at the University of Edinburgh, could be as retiring as his work was abstruse.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 10, 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

Blacks and whites alike scratched their heads at Grabarek’s abstruse testimony, but it was clear the mayor was no friend of Fuller.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson