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Beyond the disagreement over what is truly flushable and what’s not, there is quibbling about product labeling.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2019

It is quibbling, of course, to take any issue with a musician of Ax’s gifts, and his encore — the Brahms Intermezzo, Op.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2015

It is quibbling and begging the question altogether to say the phenomenon of transparency may be a rare one and so have escaped my observations.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard