stickler
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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
If brat described our wild and unapologetically messy summers, then exemplary manners, politeness and being a stickler for rules is what's taking us into autumn.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2024
Washington was a stickler for orderly files that he could search at a moment’s notice.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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