finicky

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Restaurants have struggled this year with rising costs for ingredients such as beef, scarce labor and more finicky customers.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 18, 2025

The farmers who sampled it were quick to dismiss the finicky tree.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Watchdogs also caution that the math to determine whether bioenergy projects sequester or release carbon is complicated and finicky.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

It isn't "finicky" like some, can be frozen and revived without trouble, and is unusually good at hosting foreign DNA.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Moreover, Brown’s measurement technique proved finicky in the extreme and needed much refinement.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson