technicality

Example Sentences

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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

I grew up just outside Chicago, though “grew up” feels like a technicality.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2025

But a recent attempt to take it to court by the South African Human Rights Commission failed on a technicality, effectively allowing the group to continue its campaign.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025

Chiles was also awarded her first individual Olympic medal, a bronze in the floor exercise, in Paris but it was taken away because of a technicality.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

Dismayed, Elizebeth noted that some writers were “afraid of the technicality of the subject.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield