arcane
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It’s important to be able to talk in that way and bring the debate actually away from arcane interpretation and back towards: So what are we even doing in the first place here?
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Thomas wrote a dissent in the birthright citizenship case, too, but it was more academic, replete with arcane archival material about the history of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Lodge, 71, a veteran practitioner in this rather arcane field, is a man who’s both exactly what you’d expect him to be and perhaps not what you anticipated.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
If the value of a fund’s purchased loans is inflated by an arcane accounting rule, investors may suffer significant losses when these loans become due.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
By design they were arcane, opaque, illiquid, and thus conveniently difficult for anyone but Morgan Stanley to price.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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