esoteric
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Down a narrow alley right next door is the more esoteric Mystery Pier Books, which specializes in first editions and is beloved by celebrities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
Fu lived in American communities but sought to use mind control and esoteric sciences to bring down the Western empire.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
And as Rollins aged, he would remain a voracious seeker, with interests that expanded into Zen Buddhism, martial arts, Kabbalah, the esoteric 17th-century tradition of Rosicrucianism, reincarnation and Egyptology.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
There are some other - rather esoteric - features of the new rules, about which drivers have complained, that should also be reduced.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
If these basic principles can be misinterpreted, it shouldn’t be surprising that more esoteric mathematics can be, too.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing esoteric
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