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

It seems clear that the NFL’s intent is to be picayune in its enforcement at the beginning of the year in the hope that players will be “scared straight.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Mr. Glasgow’s operation, housed in a run-down old shopping plaza and cluttered with the unruly archives of Mama Tina, Mr. Glasgow’s mother and co-missionary, can seem picayune.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2018

You need to burrow into the weeds on picayune issues so you know where opportunities for compromise lie.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2017

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

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson