technicality
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He’s trying to get her papers, and there was a technicality in there—she had crossed over and not said it and is getting deported.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
“The fiduciary point is the part most people miss, and it sounds like a technicality until it’s your data,” Jeff Judge, CFP at Chesapeake Financial Planners, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
The classification may sound like a technicality, but it matters because hundreds of exchange-traded funds and mutual funds base their allocations on the indexes’ classifications.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
The way he saw it, the Swedes were trying to win by technicality instead of skill on the ice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
This is the dumbest technicality I’ve ever heard.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
But the charges were often based on technicalities, such as failing to publicly disclose how much they were paid to endorse the new coins.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sticklers will note that “Roughing It” is supposedly nonfiction, but when was Mark Twain ever bound by technicalities, much less facts?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
It’s also possible that the three judges on Texas’ 15th Court of Appeals won’t say that much about the caliber of the state’s evidence, instead focusing its on procedural technicalities or constitutional questions.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026
I always knew that this was what I wanted to do, but I didn’t know the technicalities of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Our life turned into a courtroom drama with two lawyers constantly debating over loopholes and technicalities.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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