Thesaurus / quibble
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Forget any semantic quibbles over the meaning of the term “insurrection.”
THE NEW GOP RAGE-FEST AT LIZ CHENEY AND ADAM KINZINGER CONTAINS A BIG TELLGREG SARGENTSEPTEMBER 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLabor historian Nelson Lichtenstein says Big Tech has a tendency to lean on its transformational image to paper over any labor complaints and minimize them as quibbles that are impeding the evolution of the world.
TECH’S NEW LABOR MOVEMENT IS HARNESSING LESSONS LEARNED A CENTURY AGOSARAH JAFFEJUNE 30, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWMichael Dobbs makes a splendid case that Nixon was “an American tragedy,” though I have a quibble.
NIXON KNEW BETTER, BUT HE COULDN’T SAVE HIMSELFJOE KLEINMAY 28, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWhile it does take a few jujitsu-like maneuvers to fold the rear seats completely flat, this is a minor quibble.
A VOTE FOR ECO-FRIENDLY RIDESJOE PHILLIPSOCTOBER 16, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEBecause of a quibble on his part this loathsome thing would ruin his future, dash his hopes to the ground, blacken his life.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKINGHe saw that the reason which he had given for disbelief was untenable, and he was too straightforward to quibble about it.
THE MIDDY AND THE MOORSR.M. BALLANTYNEHe had hoped for a vigorous denial on Thorpe's part, but this halfway confession seemed to him a mere quibble.
THE COME BACKCAROLYN WELLSThat's a mere quibble, Miss Bridgeman: the association is just the same, and she ought to feel it.
MOUNT ROYAL, VOLUME 3 OF 3MARY ELIZABETH BRADDONProfessor Holcomb was a man of terse, heavy thinking; he spoke what he thought and he did not quibble.
THE BLIND SPOTAUSTIN HALLBut yet,” said the Queen, perceiving the quibble, “they resisted not with the sword.
LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, VOLUME I (OF 2)HENRY GLASSFORD BELLWORDS RELATED TO QUIBBLE
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