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recondite

[rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt] / ˈrɛk ənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒn daɪt /


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Less a recondite modernist experiment than a grandly mysterious yet accessible achievement, the composition marked a profound shift in 20th-century classical music.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Today, a number of doyens in the recondite field of AI admit they don’t know where all this is headed.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023

The five-foot deepening involved not some recondite engineering challenge; essentially it required moving muck.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

Muldoon’s own work is witty, full of wordplay, often recondite.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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