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as in to complain
to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant
he spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II
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as in to argue
to express different opinions about something often angrily
don't quibble over who gets to sit in front
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as in objection
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Recent Examples of quibble
Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
The duo quibbled in jest over an incident from earlier practice when Bronny James claimed his stout defense caused his dad to step out of bounds.
—David Close, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
My quibble will come in three questions: Why didn’t the author express horror at was done, and as being of a piece of what happened to doctors in the old Soviet Union whereby dissenting opinion was muzzled?
—John Tamny, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Verb
And who’s going to quibble with him on his very own social-media platform, never mind that this week of polling shows, like all the other weeks, that Harris is (very) narrowly beating him.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
The duo quibbled in jest over an incident from earlier practice when Bronny James claimed his stout defense caused his dad to step out of bounds.
—David Close, CNN, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
The only thing missing is an Ethernet port, but that’s a minor quibble.
—PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
My quibble will come in three questions: Why didn’t the author express horror at was done, and as being of a piece of what happened to doctors in the old Soviet Union whereby dissenting opinion was muzzled?
—John Tamny, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quibble
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Girding for battle at USC Pay is at the center of union organizing at USC, where non-tenure track professors complain of semester-to-semester contracts with little job security, minimal or nonexistent raises and moves by the university to cut benefits.Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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If corporate leaders complain about these directives’ effects on their bottom lines, Trump’s team could force CISA to scale back its use of this authority.Eric Geller, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
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Vance highlighted a passage from Bragg's 81-page legal brief, made public Tuesday, in which his team argued that no legal reasoning prevented Trump's sentencing from taking place before his inauguration.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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What is Thomas Dickey arguing in Luigi Mangione's defense?Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Over the objections of the defense, which is seeking a mistrial, the judge agreed to grant the DA's motion, CNN reports.Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Burns, then, over the attorneys’ objection, ordered them not to have contact with him about his testimony or his case overall.Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
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Or perhaps division, as outsiders begin to nitpick the juggernaut and single out which players are most important to the pursuit.Kyle Tucker, The Athletic, 4 Apr. 2024
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Margins Issues are Overblown Analysts were nitpicking margins, yet this concern is overblown.Beth Kindig, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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On a scene-to-scene level, Mr. Turner is packed full of delightful dialogue and wonderful scenes of 19th-century painters bickering and arguing, though its undercurrent is one of unstoppable modernity.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
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Sanders bickered with a reporter who asked about his plans for the rain.Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2024
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Not all Cybertruck owners will be too fussed about that, though.Carlton Reid, WIRED, 25 Nov. 2024
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The gizmo also includes haptic alerts that can wake you—but not your partner—if your child is fussing.Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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Duda fled Ukraine into Romania to avoid being drafted to fight in the Ukrainian war.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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In recent weeks, while fighting abated on one front after Israel reached a ceasefire with Hamas’ Lebanese ally Hezbollah, members of Netanyahu’s cabinet, including his justice and police ministers, have clashed with the judiciary.Reuters, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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The protests come after the EDC originally in late 2022 picked Saker, which has operated the pad for nearly 20 years, to keep running it.Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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In North Korea, AFP footage showed students scrolling through photos of anti-Yoon protests posted on the website of ruling party daily the Rodong Sinmun.Amanda Gerut, Fortune Asia, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Quibble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quibble. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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