quibble

The lawsuit turns on what laypeople might consider a minor quibble: who is responsible for the equipment connecting the city Department of Water and Power’s electrical grid to the people mover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Investors could quibble with various trends in ServiceNow’s report.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

Many will quibble with the Georgia Senate’s income tax relief plan, and the Journal has provided helpful guidance for how the proposal could be improved as it moves through the legislative process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

But the Surge’s bylaws are clear that no nit be left unpicked, and so we have to quibble with his framing.

From Slate ● Jan. 17, 2026

They were working for the Man in an unequal, sometimes unjust society—I doubt that many would quibble with that description.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Forget the quibbles about not being pleasing on the eye or too many set-pieces.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

While some of the quibbles with ServiceNow’s latest earnings are more company-specific, including margin impacts related to recent deal closures, other aspects may have wider implications for the sector.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

During the 2000s, the agency’s oncology chief, Richard Pazdur, torpedoed treatments based on quibbles with their trial designs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

And the group commutations, whatever one thinks of them as criminal justice policy, suffered from defects stemming from hasty execution that open the door to legal quibbles and political exploitation.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

For the first time, Lawrence heard a physicist with a solid grasp of subatomic behavior express support for his idea rather than smothering it in quibbles.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Close hasn’t quibbled with her team’s seeding despite its impressive 31-1 regular-season record against a loaded schedule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

He quibbled that the control group in Moderna’s late-stage trial didn’t receive the “best-available standard of care.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

The only members of the Democratic Party who quibbled with him were those of the Massachusetts delegation, slightly disappointed that Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum hadn’t gotten a lot of playing time in Paris.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2024

"They sent the money right out. They never quibbled anything, they've been brilliant."

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024

Danny and Joe chattered, quibbled, and stuffed their mouths, oblivious to the tension in the air.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

It was a mistake to think that you could give the beach cottage to these quibbling brothers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

But she dismissed arguments that regular sugar is less processed as "completely quibbling", noting that both products require stripping out fibre and other nutritional benefits.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

I recognize that this is confusing, and all of the above may seem like minor linguistic quibbling to those less aware of the history.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025

The ongoing quibbling over whether "The Bear" is a comedy or a drama received a new splash of accelerant when the FX series landed 23 Emmy Award nominations on Wednesday.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

This wasn’t the time or the place for moral quibbling.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo