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Six example sentences with abstruse, each labelled with its topic.
The compiler's error message was so abstruse that even the library's own maintainers argued about what it meant.
Technology
His paper is abstruse enough that most readers stop at the third page of notation and never reach the conclusion.
Economics
Serial composition looked abstruse to concert audiences, who heard no melody they could hold onto after the piece ended.
Music
Hegel's prose is so abstruse that graduate seminars spend a full term on the preface alone.
Philosophy
The fund's fee structure was abstruse by design, and few clients could say what they paid until the annual statement arrived.
Finance
The tax provision is so abstruse that three appeals courts have read the same sentence three different ways.
Law
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