hair-splitting in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

hair-splitting in the PONS Dictionary

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This is where the hair-splitting begins.
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Nor is this mere academic hair-splitting, angels on the head of a pin; there are important issues at stake here.
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If that seems hair-splitting, fair enough.
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You wouldn't believe some of the hair-splitting arguments we've listened to.
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This is nothing but deceptive verbal hair-splitting and conceptual obfuscation.
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The hair-splitting is important because the devil lies in the details.
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It is not hair-splitting a reaction; the tales don't all hit their mark.
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Well, too many hair-splitting issues are involved to answer this question without deliberating on at least a few.
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These technicalities may seem like hair-splitting, but they could be prohibitive enough to cancel a research study.
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These kinds of debates are not simply exercises in interpretational hair-splitting; our understanding of this once-obscure theory is maturing.
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