quibble
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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
But the Surge’s bylaws are clear that no nit be left unpicked, and so we have to quibble with his framing.
From Slate • Jan. 17, 2026
I quibble with that—because the code is open-source, it doesn’t matter who was behind it, any more than it matters who minted the first gold coin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
She pretended to quibble with a phrase or two, then looked questioningly to her mother.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing quibble
Fahrenheit 451
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