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- noun Alternative spelling of
nitpicking .
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Examples
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Minor nit-picking matter, I don't believe Sgt. Urquhart's job is appropriately described as 'Rahr spokesman'.
Phillips to Call for Audit of Sheriff’s Department « PubliCola 2010
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Isn't it amazing I can be so very nit-picking about canon in my favorite shows and yet real people around me can go into labor and I fail to notice?
Joined Twitter this morning rabid1st 2009
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I know to many that will sound like nit-picking, but the relationship between NPR and member stations has oft been strained, and the Williams matter does so more, as evidenced by station disclaimers like this one from WBUR.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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About this, her Wikipedia entry recounts that Abe Rosenthal, the nit-picking Times editor, accused her of trying to inspire readers to think "dirty thoughts" and Molly exited by ironically saying, "Damn if I could fool you, Mr. Rosenthal."
Jay Weston: Kathleen Turner Stars as Molly Ivins at Westwood's Geffen Playhouse Jay Weston 2012
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I know to many that will sound like nit-picking, but the relationship between NPR and member stations has oft been strained, and the Williams matter does so more, as evidenced by station disclaimers like this one from WBUR.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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I know to many that will sound like nit-picking, but the relationship between NPR and member stations has oft been strained, and the Williams matter does so more, as evidenced by station disclaimers like this one from WBUR.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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I know to many that will sound like nit-picking, but the relationship between NPR and member stations has oft been strained, and the Williams matter does so more, as evidenced by station disclaimers like this one from WBUR.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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Since Perry has already taken some stimulus funds and then taken the credit for it, a charge of hypocrisy would be well-founded – and your criticism, merely ideological nit-picking.
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I know to many that will sound like nit-picking, but the relationship between NPR and member stations has oft been strained, and the Williams matter does so more, as evidenced by station disclaimers like this one from WBUR.
Farai Chideya: What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate Farai Chideya 2010
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It's probably nit-picking, but I think it's important to re-emphasize the role of the individual in criticism as a way of underscoring the idea that truths about any game/movie are legion and not singular and objective.
GTA IV And The Dark Knight: Films And Games In 2008 SVGL 2009
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