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
I can be quite a stickler with tuning.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
In my own home, this year, I became much more of a stickler about wasting food.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025
It is that every man is his own stickler.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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One of Us Is Lying
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