quibble

The lawsuit turns on what laypeople might consider a minor quibble: who is responsible for the equipment connecting the city Department of Water and Power’s electrical grid to the people mover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

People may want to quibble with me about this, but I believe marinated beans occupy a category adjacent to, yet ontologically distinct from, bean salad.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

Anyone can quibble about numbers and calculations around the edges.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

Political scientists will quibble about the degree to which the Election Commission’s actions affected the final results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

The fact that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii rather than invaded the continental United States was a distinction that neither of us bothered to quibble over.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Forget the quibbles about not being pleasing on the eye or too many set-pieces.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

While some of the quibbles with ServiceNow’s latest earnings are more company-specific, including margin impacts related to recent deal closures, other aspects may have wider implications for the sector.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

This goes to all the quibbles that we surfaced about the shadow docket when Vasquez Perdomo came out.

From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2025

But Dr. Pazdur’s team raised quibbles late in the review, and Dr. Prasad sided with the drug’s opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

This attitude was reinforced over the next few years, when a succession of critics, clearly Newton’s intellectual inferiors, raised a host of quibbles about his work, which showed their own ignorance more than anything else.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Close hasn’t quibbled with her team’s seeding despite its impressive 31-1 regular-season record against a loaded schedule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

The agency also quibbled that Regenxbio’s trial lacked a placebo arm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Necheles further quibbled that Daniels said in her In Touch interview that Trump was “nice, intelligent in conversation,” which the lawyer argued contradicted Daniels’ testimony about her encounter with Trump.

From Slate ● May 10, 2024

"They sent the money right out. They never quibbled anything, they've been brilliant."

From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024

Danny and Joe chattered, quibbled, and stuffed their mouths, oblivious to the tension in the air.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Semantics are more important than they may seem; it’s not just about quibbling over language.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

It was a mistake to think that you could give the beach cottage to these quibbling brothers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

But she dismissed arguments that regular sugar is less processed as "completely quibbling", noting that both products require stripping out fibre and other nutritional benefits.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

I recognize that this is confusing, and all of the above may seem like minor linguistic quibbling to those less aware of the history.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2025

For every bit of awe we felt in Kenya, we were also tired, which led to quibbling, which led finally, for whatever reason, to rage.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama