quibble
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“Could some of them quibble that they missed more of yesterday’s rally than they would have liked? Sure, but no one ever went broke by taking a profit,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
The main quibble with this second season is the writers’ heavy reliance on our fondness for the returning cast, which comes at the expense of newcomers like Al-Hashimi or the latest crop of medical students.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
I quibble with that—because the code is open-source, it doesn’t matter who was behind it, any more than it matters who minted the first gold coin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The funny thing is that while we quibble about these products that may or may not work, there’s one tried-and-true product that guarantees good skin: sunscreen, whose only sin is not being sexy enough.
From Slate • May 4, 2025
She pretended to quibble with a phrase or two, then looked questioningly to her mother.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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