abstruse
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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
I wasn’t expecting to write such a sentence about an abstract and some might even say abstruse Sondheim musical that has had only one short-lived Broadway revival.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
The particle is part of a concept called the Higgs mechanism that was added to the standard model in the 1970s to explain an abstruse but important puzzle.
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
The passage can be cryptic, abstruse, arcane; these are symptoms of the curse of knowledge.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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