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recondite

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


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Bond knew weapons as well as he did the most recondite French wine list.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

The wisdom-of-crowds argument presupposes that the masses possess some recondite knowledge that can be unlocked by allowing individuals to express themselves as part of an anonymous mob.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 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

In the 1950s and ’60s, Auden hoped he might be regarded as “a minor Atlantic Goethe” even as his poetry grew loose and talky, his diction occasionally recondite.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022

By various recondite processes, he converted the urine first into a noxious paste and then into a translucent warty substance.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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