technicality
Origin of technicality
1Other words from technicality
- hy·per·tech·ni·cal·i·ty, noun
- o·ver·tech·ni·cal·i·ty, noun, plural o·ver·tech·ni·cal·i·ties.
Words Nearby technicality
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How to use technicality in a sentence
Now that many of the technicalities have been ironed out, it’s up to the council members to decide if they want to fund the nearly half million dollars for the Roosevelt pool in the upcoming budget.
How an education spending law may help keep this pool closed to the public | Perry Stein | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostKinne was charged and tried but soon found herself acquitted on a legal technicality.
This was my first time, so I didn’t know the technicalities of it.
A'Ziah 'Zola' King on Making an Authentic Film Adaptation of Her Viral Story—and What Comes Next | Cady Lang | June 25, 2021 | TimeUganda’s Constitutional Court later struck down the Anti-Homosexuality Act on a technicality.
State Department expresses concern over anti-LGBTQ bill in Uganda | Michael K. Lavers | May 5, 2021 | Washington BladeAlso, there needs to be a way to address the various technicalities that go into SEO, but that’s for later.
Is Google moving towards greater search equity? | Mordy Oberstein | March 10, 2021 | Search Engine Watch
It will not be your legal responsibility, but you're simply winning on a technicality.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was arrested, tried and, thanks to a technicality, acquitted.
Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating Life | Chimamanda Adichie | August 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe case was tossed out the following year on a technicality.
The effect would be to knock down California's gay-marriage ban on a technicality, without affecting the rest of the country.
Will the Supreme Court Dodge a Big Marriage Equality Decision? | David Frum | March 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI said “Britcom” earlier; Father Ted is only that on a technicality.
The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.
Expressive Voice Culture | Jessie Eldridge SouthwickShe slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonThey are—to fall back on the ancient technicality—Realists of a crude sort.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsShould he condemn himself and Doris Cleveland to heartache and loneliness because of a technicality?
The Hidden Places | Bertrand W. SinclairThis I cal186l the Apology of technicality inspired by tyranny.
Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 5 (of 20) | Charles Sumner
British Dictionary definitions for technicality
/ (ˌtɛknɪˈkælɪtɪ) /
a petty formal point arising from a strict interpretation of rules, etc: the case was dismissed on a technicality
the state or quality of being technical
technical methods and vocabulary
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