quibble

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

The band, expanded to include touring keyboardist Loren Gold, seemed exhilarated, if a little stiff at times, a first-night quibble that will surely self-correct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Investors could quibble with various trends in ServiceNow’s report.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

One quibble is that growth is narrow, with tech carrying basically the entire load.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 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

During the 2000s, the agency’s oncology chief, Richard Pazdur, torpedoed treatments based on quibbles with their trial designs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

And the group commutations, whatever one thinks of them as criminal justice policy, suffered from defects stemming from hasty execution that open the door to legal quibbles and political exploitation.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 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

He quibbled that the control group in Moderna’s late-stage trial didn’t receive the “best-available standard of care.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

The only members of the Democratic Party who quibbled with him were those of the Massachusetts delegation, slightly disappointed that Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum hadn’t gotten a lot of playing time in Paris.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2024

I don't think anyone would have quibbled at all.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

A lot of people on Twitter, desperate to muddy the waters around this, quibbled with the phrase "made fun," arguing that many of these people, uh, merely "asked questions" about the attack.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023

They always quibbled, but actually they were very close—closer than most brothers and sisters.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

During his testimony and cross-examination on Tuesday and Wednesday, he looked petty and pugilistic, offering answers inconsistent with his deposition and quibbling with defense attorney William Savitt over yes-or-no questions for hours.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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

The ongoing quibbling over whether "The Bear" is a comedy or a drama received a new splash of accelerant when the FX series landed 23 Emmy Award nominations on Wednesday.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

This wasn’t the time or the place for moral quibbling.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo