finicky
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The “coffee-machine story” was a recounting of the finicky 1970s coin-operated coffee machine in his office that often malfunctioned and dispensed its entire contents from one coin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Restaurants have struggled this year with rising costs for ingredients such as beef, scarce labor and more finicky customers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 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
The capsules themselves can be a little finicky, so if fuss-free is your priority, you may prefer the PAX.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Even among herbivores and omnivores, many species, like koalas, are too finicky in their plant preferences to recommend themselves as farm animals.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In Thompson’s view, the Air Force is making a simple calculation: The B-52 costs far less to operate and maintain than the newer but finickier B-2.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
Cease your practice of copying tour pros, who have turned golf into survival of the finickiest by adhering to preshot routines that violate loitering laws in most states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
For instance, some languages, like Matses in Peru, oblige their speakers, like the finickiest of lawyers, to specify exactly how they came to know about the facts they are reporting.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2010
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