technicality

When you can’t win on the merits, try a technicality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

“The fiduciary point is the part most people miss, and it sounds like a technicality until it’s your data,” Jeff Judge, CFP at Chesapeake Financial Planners, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Had the staff member gone days earlier, as Eckert had originally asked, they would have escaped sanction on a technicality.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

The classification may sound like a technicality, but it matters because hundreds of exchange-traded funds and mutual funds base their allocations on the indexes’ classifications.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

This is the dumbest technicality I’ve ever heard.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

And when the technicalities of A.I. detection collide with cancel culture, it does not lead anywhere productive.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

One trader took to X to complain about the technicalities surrounding this market.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026

But he says he wouldn’t be surprised to see that some people will accept the assumption that Betty Boop enters the public domain next year without delving into the legal technicalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

Those credits cost banks less but come with technicalities that suck up consumers’ time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Talking to him was largely a matter of getting him away from such subjects and entangling him, if possible, in the technicalities of Newspeak, on which he was authoritative and interesting.

From "1984" by George Orwell