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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.
Words nearby nitpick
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Example sentences from the Web for nitpick
Of course, there’s room to nitpick on the terms of Bertans’s five-year, $80 million contract.
NBA free agency winners and losers: A tough weekend for the Wizards and Knicks|Ben Golliver|November 23, 2020|Washington PostPeople can nitpick ... but we were going for something a bit more shapeless and ethereal than the usual biopic.
‘Greetings From Tim Buckley’: Penn Badgley on Playing Late Musician Jeff Buckley|Richard Porton|April 30, 2013|DAILY BEASTThe identical twins who sued Zuckerberg critique and nitpick The Social Network.
British Dictionary definitions for nitpick
nit-pick
verb (intr)
informal to raise petty objections or concern oneself with insignificant details
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