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Definition of Nitpickers
1. nitpicker [n] - See also: nitpicker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitpickers
Literary usage of Nitpickers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"None of them were nitpickers; none liked to demean the men who worked with them (we
can't say "worked under them"). Our Squadron recollections agree that ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"Harper points out that the placement of these adjectives is idiomatically correct,
so the nitpickers may be ignored. Partridge 1942 cites an authority who ..."
3. Muhammad Ali & Company by Thomas Hauser (1998)
"And while some nitpickers might have questioned my ability to score reliably from
a subterranean view, there's no doubt in my mind that I would have done a ..."
4. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, M. S. Keane, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"... physicist that: " nitpickers ... should be encouraged in this field.... [12]".
2. Notation and background For general background on the theory of Gibbs ..."
5. Claudine the Circus Woman by Timothy J. Quinlan (2000)
"We have too many nitpickers. Einstein said, 'energy equals mass squared times
the speed of light - usually.' His editors at Yale Press said, ..."
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