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She's working on some recondite problem in theoretical mathematics.recondite = incomprehensible to people of ordinary understanding or knowledge
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MARTHA: ABSTRUSE! In the sense of recondite. (source)
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The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. (source)
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...where he had spent his brightest years in recondite pursuits, (source)
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In midwinter a field biologist discovered all his belongings, two rifles, camping gear, a diary filled with incoherent ranting about truth and beauty and recondite ecological theory, in an empty cabin near Tofty, its interior filled with drifted snow.† (source)
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A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative.† (source)
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We preferred to probe the recondite "serious issues.† (source)recondite = incomprehensible to people of ordinary understanding or knowledge
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Long afterward, writing of this time in his boyhood, John Quincy Adams would recall secreting himself in a closet to smoke tobacco and read Milton's Paradise Lost, trying without success to determine what "recondite charm" in them gave his father so much pleasure.† (source)
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The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous riddle, or parable, whose theme is time; this recondite cause prohibits its mention.† (source)
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The savor was slender, elusive, and recondite, a ghostly bouquet that haunted rather than lived on the tongue.† (source)
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There was a vein of dry humor, or what not, in the mast-man; and, whether in freak of patriarchal irony touching Billy's youth and athletic frame, or for some other and more recondite reason, from the first in addressing him he always substituted Baby for Billy.† (source)
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The Directorship devoured enough time and peace to prevent Gottlieb from going on with the ever more recondite problems of his inquiry into the nature of specificity, and his inquiry prevented him from giving enough attention to the Institute to keep it from falling to pieces.† (source)
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There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason.† (source)
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Newman had once spent a morning, in the course of business, at Mr. Babcock's birthplace, and, for reasons too recondite to unfold, his visit there always assumed in his mind a jocular cast.† (source)
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He may have some deep-seated recondite complaint.† (source)
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But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.† (source)
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