picayune

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The next-largest categories, and we think the most concerning, encompass election administration and absentee voting – often challenging mechanical, even picayune matters.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2022

These rules may seem picayune, but frequent fliers take them seriously.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

It is cluttered with the unruly archives of Mama Tina, Glasgow’s mother and co-missionary, and it can seem picayune.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2018

In 2013, as a novice math teacher at Callaghan Elementary in rural Covington, Virginia, Liptrap was plagued by student requests to sharpen pencils, use the bathroom, and other picayune interruptions.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2016

I made the mistake of saying we were back to the picayune grind.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson