: known or knowable only to a few people : secret
arcane rites
an arcane ritual
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Although members of the Harvard Corporation are chosen through an arcane internal process, candidates for the university’s lower, larger body, the Board of Overseers, are nominated by committee and picked by an open alumni vote.
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Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Trust & Will aims to shake things up in the arcane estate planning industry and make these key wealth preservation and wealth transfer services more accessible to families.
—Riley De León, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
Republicans aim to move their tax-and-spending package through the Senate using reconciliation, an arcane procedure that was once intended to help restrain fiscal excess but which has long been twisted to facilitate it.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2025
The two Metroidvania progenitors — 1986’s Metroid and 1987’s Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest — cultivated a sense of geographical bewilderment by letting players unfurl the secrets of their arcane worlds in any direction along the X and Y axes.
—Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Trust & Will aims to shake things up in the arcane estate planning industry and make these key wealth preservation and wealth transfer services more accessible to families.
—Riley De León, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2025
Republicans aim to move their tax-and-spending package through the Senate using reconciliation, an arcane procedure that was once intended to help restrain fiscal excess but which has long been twisted to facilitate it.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2025
The two Metroidvania progenitors — 1986’s Metroid and 1987’s Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest — cultivated a sense of geographical bewilderment by letting players unfurl the secrets of their arcane worlds in any direction along the X and Y axes.
—Lewis Gordon, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Arcane.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arcane. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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