technicality
Example Sentences
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“It is not just a technicality. It is a foundational obstacle,” she said.
Second, because of legislative technicalities, high earners will get an approximately 5.4% haircut on their total itemized deductions.
From Barron's
Edward Luce, Washington-based columnist for the Financial Times, wrote a recent piece under the headline, “It’s unwise to get Trump on a technicality.”
From Washington Post
Questions have been raised about the technicalities of the Credit Suisse rescue and the decision to insure all depositors at Silicon Valley.
From Seattle Times
Despite the new evidence, Mr. Kuenzel’s appeal struggled to move forward because of what his lawyers called a “procedural technicality,” an administrative filing deadline that he missed by several months early in the case.
From Washington Post
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