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Examples
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We can hair-split over this sentence long and wide especially about the ideological undertone, but I think the problematic feature here is the belief that taxation is a kind of redistribution.
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Blitzer correctly sensed the hair-split, and asked for clarification: I want to make sure I understand.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jason Linkins 2012
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This is more or less the $6 billion that you refer to (I have seen it said to be a bit higher elsewhere, but it is a hair-split of an argument for these purposes).
Irish Blogs Of Laws and Men 2008
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"You criticise and hair-split in a remarkable fashion, monsieur, and are an adept in the science of induction; but, let me say without offence meant, that you give me the impression of being rather a romancing journalist than a judicial investigator! ...
Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894
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