stickler

Example Sentences

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When Claudius v1 came online, there were only a handful of co-workers in the Slack channel, and the bot, powered by large language model Claude 3.7 Sonnet, was a stickler for the rules:

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

You seem to be a stickler for detail, so that came as a surprise.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

We know Maresca is a stickler for playing out from the back, but doing that against Newcastle is asking for trouble.

From BBC • May 8, 2025

In my own home, this year, I became much more of a stickler about wasting food.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though gready accelerated.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author