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Six example sentences with recondite, each labelled with its topic.
His footnotes are so recondite that even specialists reach for three reference books before finishing a single page.
Literature
The seminar spent a month on a recondite argument about time that perhaps forty people in the world can follow.
Philosophy
Her lecture on recondite tuning systems drew a small crowd, since few players have ever heard a quarter-comma meantone keyboard.
Music
The lecture covered a recondite corner of number theory that even the department's own professors admitted they avoided.
Science
The case turned on a recondite point of maritime law that only two barristers in the country had ever argued.
Law
The exhibition's recondite theme, medieval pigment recipes, drew a handful of scholars and puzzled almost everyone else.
Art
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