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I want gently to suggest that Michaels and his posse are driven to such abstrusity by a kind of civic status anxiety.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2011
My mind had been marinating overnight—and for more than a year, really—in the abstrusities of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology on which they are built.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
An intense, scholarly man, Reuss has had a longtime interest in the abstrusities of fiscal and monetary policy, a passion shared by his wife Margaret, an economics professor.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his advanced training in defense strategy really dates from his six years on the staff of the Rand Corp., where he was deeply immersed in the abstrusities of the nuclear age.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their proof depends upon the abstrusities of quantum physics.
From Time Magazine Archive
I find some of Spinoza’s Letters very good, and so far useful as that they try to clear up some of his abstrusities at the earnest request of friends as dull as myself.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
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