: known or knowable only to a few people : secret
arcane rites
an arcane ritual
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In truth, Ferrari’s in-house Centro Stile has long got used to translating the arcane requirements of the company’s tech bros into something visually stimulating.
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Jason Barlow, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
On the sidelines, where people pored over arcane PowerPoints of voter data, the mood was grimmer.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
The company’s games were streamlined and approachable, in contrast with more arcane competitors that, especially in the early days of PC gaming, seemed to demand that players reference dense manuals at every turn.
—Jason Schreier, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
In 2019, Google claimed its Sycamore quantum processor performed, in just 200 seconds, an arcane numerical generation task that would have taken a classical computer 10,000 years to complete.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Jason Barlow, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
On the sidelines, where people pored over arcane PowerPoints of voter data, the mood was grimmer.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
The company’s games were streamlined and approachable, in contrast with more arcane competitors that, especially in the early days of PC gaming, seemed to demand that players reference dense manuals at every turn.
—Jason Schreier, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
In 2019, Google claimed its Sycamore quantum processor performed, in just 200 seconds, an arcane numerical generation task that would have taken a classical computer 10,000 years to complete.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Arcane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arcane. Accessed 2 Nov. 2024.
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