nitpicking

Example Sentences

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Some pretended to be difficult customers to allow the waitstaff to rehearse for future nitpicking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2025

This is really important, because in some sense it might sound as if we’re just nitpicking numbers.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2025

Chu employs her considerable expertise to argue that criticism can and should leave behind theoretical nitpicking and address the big, dangerous global issues at hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

Is this the nitpicking of someone demanding a favorite story’s purity be retained down to the latches and buttons?

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2024

He didn’t actually have anything to gain from another treaty with Stalin, and he was annoyed with the nitpicking negotiation.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein