hairsplitting in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

hairsplitting in the PONS Dictionary

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Let's begin with the hairsplitting exercise.
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As of now, there is a lot of hairsplitting on whether one's income from sale of shares is capital gains or business income.
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When charitable status depends on a legal definition more than a century old, legal hairsplitting is inevitable.
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The term pilpul was increasingly applied derogatorily to novellae deemed casuistic and hairsplitting.
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I felt inept for having suggested the wrong pairing and annoyed by the wine seller's hairsplitting choosiness.
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For whatever legal hairsplitting nonsense those who have made millions and their careers out of the current negotiating impasse may claim, two things are now clear.
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Talmudic study has always been about competing in a marketplace of ideas and making sometimes hairsplitting distinctions, all in the name of finding truth.
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The task is easy at first, but hairsplitting in the end.
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To make my case, let me give you two reasons: one hairsplitting and one substantial.
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One scholar described this type of sinology as philological hairsplitting preoccupied with marginal or curious aspects.
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