hair-splitting
Example Sentences
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Their final complaint was a hair-splitting gotcha: I wrote that “lawmakers can count on a few fingers the times former Sen. Vance has set foot in the Capitol.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In his written judgement, Mr Justice Knowles said the grounds on which the panel had rejected the judge's application for relocation amounted to "semantic hair-splitting".
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
VOA’s stance has led to some intricate hair-splitting.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
And so, after all the parsing and hair-splitting, we come to the heartfelt, rough-hewn denials.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2023
Armed with the hair-splitting weapons of Byzantine theology, which they soon learned to use only too well, the Arabs proceeded to try their edge on the dogmas of Islam.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson
