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esoteric

[es-uh-ter-ik] / ˌɛs əˈtɛr ɪk /


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In 2019, he registered a trademark for an esoteric video game called “Bohrdom,” a “hybrid of a bullet hell and a racing game” based on atomic theory, in which electrons and protons compete.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 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

Surveillance software sprouted in every cranny of the ballpark, first in service of providing more data for teams and front offices to pore over, then as fuel for ever more esoteric betting propositions.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026

The Druze are followers of an esoteric religion that split from Shiite Islam centuries ago.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

In the year since his induction, he’d read every esoteric word, every mundane passage Erastis had thrown at him.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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