nit
Example Sentences
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If investors had a nit to pick with the biggest lenders, it would be with their net interest margins, which remain thin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But the Surge’s bylaws are clear that no nit be left unpicked, and so we have to quibble with his framing.
From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026
“He was cold and limp, not moving. He had fly strike, which is little fly larvae, all over him. My wife got a nit comb and cleaned him up.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2023
But these guys are serious, and they’re not about to walk the plank just because the Coastal Commission picked a nit or two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
No; I could not but smile through my chafe; For the fellow lay safe As his mates do, the midge and the nit —Through minuteness, to wit.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
