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Recent Examples of arcane In traditional dictatorships, critics are often charged with crimes such as sedition, treason, or plotting insurrection, but contemporary autocrats tend to prosecute critics for more mundane offenses, such as corruption, tax evasion, defamation, and even minor violations of arcane rules. Steven Levitsky, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025 Another facet of the debate over Reagan National is an arcane rule about how far its flights can travel. Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025 But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility. River Akira Davis, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 And if this becomes an arcane game of legal chess, both his critics and Fauci would have available moves. Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arcane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arcane
Adjective
  • But there are also more esoteric forums, such as r/rentnerzeigenaufdinge, the German-language subreddit that’s devoted to context-free photos of retirees pointing at random things.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Practiced in esoteric pursuits including Kabbala and Rosicrucianism, Court de Gébelin sought meaning in the cards’ strange symbolism.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Tell me more about the album’s title—is it supposed to be a little cryptic?
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Prologue was first announced in 2019 with a cryptic trailer that showed a first-person view of a storm crashing through a dark forest.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Researchers in northern Denmark have unearthed evidence of a mysterious circle of wooden posts dating back 4,000 years.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The Scholars, out May 2 on Matador Records, features at least a dozen distinct characters, in settings that include a mysterious university and a clown school.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Her lyric vocal writing contends with harsh reality, but her style is never far from profound rapture.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In the face of profound global challenges—political polarization, environmental collapse, racial injustice, and widening economic inequality—these leaders have consistently delivered one unifying message: The future belongs to businesses that solve social problems, not contribute to them.
    Paul Klein, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The film has proven divisive, though, with some audiences puzzled by its breakneck tonal shifts and ambiguous ending.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Trump has not commented on the military base plan specifically but delivered an ambiguous answer this week to a question regarding the use of private companies to assist with deportations.
    David Catanese, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Founded on the ethos of art as a form of mystic healing, the label reimagines the family heirloom—and invites its patrons to examine their relationship with objects.
    Nia Shumake, Essence, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Healy Lake members have long considered their dogs to be mystic companions, according to Combs.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Everything feels absurd and animated by obscure cosmic forces.
    Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
  • After years in obscure so-so movies playing Chopin and Byron, and in some respectable Merchant Ivory ones, the surprise star of last year's Four Weddings and a Funeral and this year's Nine Months and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain has lately been having a bad life.
    Candace Bushnell, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Daniels, who is 6'8 and enormously athletic, has already - at such a young age - found a way to bridge the two aspects, and combine them with his uncanny basketball IQ that takes into account timing, player tendencies, and anticipation.
    Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Like a chameleon, the 5-foot-6 senior has the uncanny ability to adapt to any opponent, game situation or even time of year.
    Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Arcane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arcane. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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