How to Use esoteric in a Sentence
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With an esoteric take on museum gazing that’s laser focused on your feelings, the overall concept is very sound.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
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In the kitchen, his fridge and pantry were stocked with esoteric ingredients: a cactus glaze, cold pickled desert mallow shrub, prickly pear sambal, bee pollen shoyu, mesquite sap.
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In the LeftTube oeuvre, no topic is too esoteric for discussion.
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Ten seconds that rocked physics As with many grand scientific quests, the hunt for mirror matter grew out of a small, seemingly esoteric mystery.
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This is not an esoteric battle being fought in scientific journals and academic conferences, though there is a fair share of back-and-forth occurring in both venues.
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The esoteric lecture circuit has always held a place in American culture as a proving ground for experimental ideas, both good and bad.
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Birding was a completely esoteric and perplexing concept for rural bureaucrats in a nation with little contact with the outside world.
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The technological advances make modern pitching sound esoteric to the casual fan.
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The esoteric title is the name of one of the game’s rarest pitches.
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Is that a way to add some vagueness to the meaning of the song, by giving it an esoteric name?
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The network still doesn’t want your show to be too esoteric or too smart.
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The refraction of that bright star’s light by our atmosphere is one of the more esoteric sights in the skies above.
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This bodes well for The Night Agent and maybe less good for people drawn to Netflix’s more esoteric fare.
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There's a cornucopia of esoteric deals on this one page—or rather ten pages—of deals, so go nuts.
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The titles of some concert tours can be a bit esoteric.
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With so much esoteric imagery, this fever dream of a novel runs hot and cold.
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The skills required are esoteric, and the risk of spending years of effort for little progress is great.
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The global hits on Netflix in the U.S. are a long way from the esoteric fare that has defined foreign art on screen for years.
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Permit me to ask an esoteric question: is there such a thing as too much snow?
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Of course, there’s a driver to take you the 90-second journey to the central lifts and a concierge, too, who’ll finesse any of your needs, from the mundane to the esoteric.
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Whereas the Dead is a band with decades of esoteric lore and a sound forged in the ’60s, Goose is accessible and modern.
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This year the show’s theme is a little more esoteric than usual.
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This is not an esoteric dilemma: There are more pathogens out there poised to spill into the human species.
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Many of these will appeal to collectors with a penchant for the rare and esoteric.
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Rob fumbles, then pressures the singer to explain some of her esoteric lyrics about love.
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Also because its actions are couched in the esoteric language of the law.
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Down the road, though, lead in solder may pose more esoteric concerns.
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Its sound has the freeness of jazz, the esoteric textures of psychedelia and the unpredictability of prog-rock.
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Gala, Dalí’s muse, business partner and agent, had a penchant for the esoteric.
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That friend of yours who is into some esoteric poet from the 1700s that just totally speaks to the world today?
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