hair-splitting
Example Sentences
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In his written judgement, Mr Justice Knowles said the grounds on which the panel had rejected the judge's application for relocation amounted to "semantic hair-splitting".
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024
VOA’s stance has led to some intricate hair-splitting.
From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023
“I was a hair-splitting moralist, judgmental and proud,” Harley confesses many decades later.
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2023
The court’s hair-splitting exercise illustrates what one judge called an “Escherian Stairwell.”
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2021
"Your subtle reasonings and hair-splitting distinctions are too much for me to attempt to disprove, on such a broiling hot day as this."
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Bayne, Mary Addams
