technicality
Example Sentences
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The classification may sound like a technicality, but it matters because hundreds of exchange-traded funds and mutual funds base their allocations on the index’s classifications.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
I grew up just outside Chicago, though “grew up” feels like a technicality.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025
In recent weeks, however, the spy case collapsed over a seeming legal technicality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
She claimed she was "expelled on a technicality" after years of internally campaigning for the party to treat "sex as a protected characteristic".
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
This is the dumbest technicality I’ve ever heard.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Vocabulary lists containing technicality
Guts
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Just Mercy
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