stickler

Example Sentences

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When Claudius v1 came online, there were only a handful of co-workers in the Slack channel, and the bot, powered by large language model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, was a stickler for the rules:

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

You seem to be a stickler for detail, so that came as a surprise.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

In my own home, this year, I became much more of a stickler about wasting food.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

Just as he was as a Pro Bowl quarterback, Palmer is a stickler for preparation and details, and all this is new territory for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024

Claudia, a stickler for cleanliness, had insisted that she and her brother take a bath in the museum’s fountain late at night.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai