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stickler

[stik-ler] / ˈstɪk lər /


NOUN
insistent person
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Now, I’m not exactly a stickler for precise detail.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

When Claudius v1 came online, there were only a handful of co-workers in the Slack channel, and the bot, powered by large language model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, was a stickler for the rules:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

You seem to be a stickler for detail, so that came as a surprise.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2025

Darin Erstad, another former Angels star, has experience teaching young players as a college coach and would be a stickler for fundamentals and accountability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025

It’s tough being a stickler for punctuation these days.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author


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