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minutiae

noun as in trivial detail

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But in focusing on the minutiae of what happened and recommending mostly narrow or technical improvements, it failed to answer the deeper question: “Why, after all these years, don’t we do this any better?”

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At least five podcasts followed the minutiae of the case in the regional Victorian town of Morwell.

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Forget the “minutiae of Medicaid policy,” tweeted Vice President JD Vance, supposed elegist of hillbillies and other downtrodden Americans — it’s the extra immigration crackdown cash that counts.

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The specifics of the mission are as mysterious as these men’s names as we watch them carry out the minutiae of military busywork.

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“People who get really into the minutiae may point out that there are a couple of instances … where we bent those rules a little bit,” Macaulay says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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