hairsplitting
Example Sentences
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But Oedipus is in no mood for academic hairsplitting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
But then Team Gorsuch began nitpicking and hairsplitting, and now the story seems relevant.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022
This is a strange time to be debating the merits of truth in journalism on the stage—and it is journalism that John is practicing here, regardless of his genre hairsplitting.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
Yet even the new rules can seem like hairsplitting.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
And her father, who now knew from Weir the story of the happening of thirty years before, assured her that she need be troubled over no moral hairsplitting.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
