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Recent Examples of recondite But a few key paragraphs within the 88-page filing mention the exclusion and social shaming of non-iPhone users confined inside green chat bubbles, distinguishing this case from some of the more recondite explanations of tech market competition in recent years. Lauren Goode, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024 There are familiar words describing nature particular to the U.S., like prairie, skunk, coyote and chipmunk, but also more recondite ones, like catawba (a species of grape and type of sparkling wine), catawampous (fierce, destructive) and cottondom (the region in which cotton is grown). Sarah Ogilvie, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023 Other efforts required more recondite statistical analysis. Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023 Pierre Boulez — like Bernstein, a composer, though in a more recondite modernist mode — innovated with repertory mixtures and concert formats. Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for recondite
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Adjective
  • Unfortunately, tenure, even in the best schools, gets rewarded to professors who write articles filled with complex math or esoteric theories in sociology and psychology.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • While the syntax of esoteric languages may be hard to understand, the actual programming stack is often wonderfully simple.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This is a period of profound adjustment for everyone at the club, to put it mildly.
    Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • But their journey involves profound moments with their past and future, examining how the Mi’kmaw people, Indigenous to Nova Scotia, relate to the land and to each other.
    William Earl, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Recondite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recondite. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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