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
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
“I am well aware that speaking of a ‘Synod on Synodality’ may seem something abstruse, self-referential, excessively technical, and of little interest to the general public,” Pope Francis said in August.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2023
At sixteen, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s famously abstruse masterpiece Principia Mathematica.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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