split hairs
Example Sentences
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Given the bottlenecks, data centers might care more about speed than split hairs about cost.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
A clear-eyed overview of the nuclear industry and the Japanese disaster doesn’t split hairs over the risk: It can happen here.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022
Not to split hairs, but I don’t have a nightstand.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2020
Sometimes decisions also seem to split hairs: The Facebook page for Jones’ Infowars was taken down in August 2018, long before Facebook took broader steps to remove numerous other pages connected to Jones and Infowars.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2019
He and the Ghost and the Bomb are not precisely my friends, but they actually seem to like me, and I am not inclined to split hairs.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
