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

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

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025

A stickler for defense, Cronin had yelled at Harris and threatened to throw him out of a recent practice that was open to reporters because the guard was not executing traps to the coach’s liking.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

Part of one’s despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author