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

If brat described our wild and unapologetically messy summers, then exemplary manners, politeness and being a stickler for rules is what's taking us into autumn.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024

There were many portraits that had to be taken from Gresham College to Crane Court, and this was overseen by the obsessive stickler for detail Sir Isaac Newton.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin