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Six example sentences with arcane, each labelled with its topic.
The crafting system hides arcane rules that only forum veterans know, like which two herbs cancel each other out.
Gaming
Filing the appeal required an arcane procedure that even seasoned clerks had to look up in a dusty manual.
Law
His late notebooks are arcane, and perhaps six scholars alive can follow the private symbols he used for time.
Philosophy
The bond's pricing rests on arcane formulas that perhaps a dozen traders in the whole city fully understand.
Finance
The build system depends on arcane flags that only the engineer who wrote it in 2009 could explain.
Technology
The tuning system is arcane, understood by a handful of organ builders who pass it down entirely by ear.
Music
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