abstruse
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They explain abstruse technical aspects, muse on therapy practices and add historical and cultural references.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
That might sound like an abstruse philosophical argument, but he says it's a hot debate within the scientific community.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2025
It’s not exactly secret, but it’s abstruse enough that they hope most people, who aren’t fully conversant with the complexities of the program, won’t get the drift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
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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