technicality

Example Sentences

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The way he saw it, the Swedes were trying to win by technicality instead of skill on the ice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

I grew up just outside Chicago, though “grew up” feels like a technicality.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

Mr Najim was freed due to a legal technicality, according to sources in Italy's interior ministry.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

Chiles was also awarded her first individual Olympic medal, a bronze in the floor exercise, in Paris but it was taken away because of a technicality.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

I lost the bet on a technicality because examples were produced of solutions with a singularity that was visible from a long way away.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking