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Recent Examples of pedantic The primary impact was to tournament players and to the pedantic rule grammar police. Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 Plus, in addition to bringing back master-of-disguise penguin villain Feathers McGraw, the movie features a convincing while never pedantic message about our dependence on technology and the pleasures of doing things by hand. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025 So ultimately, the remedy for this problem goes beyond pedantic lessons in medical risk data. Amanda Montañez, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024 And Mitchell is perfectly cast in a role seemingly built to suit his usual fussy, pedantic schtick. Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pedantic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedantic
Adjective
  • Pedagogies Asking Scholarly Questions with JSTOR Daily Help students develop analytic and scholarly questioning skills using a quick activity built on JSTOR Daily roundups and syllabi.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Here are four ways that scholars can broaden the impact of scholarly research at this particularly moment in time.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • No more boring, irrelevant training modules—this is learning at the speed of work.
    Lisa Bodell, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But, because a musician no longer had to be literate to gain worldwide acclaim, the technology had the collateral effect of sidelining musical literacy.
    Matthew Aucoin, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Studies show that financial trauma can lead to avoidance behaviors, chronic underinvestment, and hesitancy in wealth-building strategies, even among financially literate women.
    Alejandra Rojas, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • View 6 Images Reading and writing on regular tablets can be tiring for your eyes, which is where E Ink can help.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Ultimately, many on the internet have identified this week as a particularly tiring one for Black K-pop fans.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Talos, Pandora and other artificially intelligent entities had already set the stage for humans to explore this idea.
    Sofia Giannuzzi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Yes, Love Hotel might be Bravo’s most emotionally intelligent experiment yet.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Designed for Uncertainty – And the Next Economic Landscape Think defense stocks are dull?
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike dry skin, which can be dull and scaly, the leading symptom of eczema is chronic itchiness.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly—every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads, and old connections are allowed to fall away.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
  • While athleticism doesn’t hurt, the cerebral nature of safety shows minimal correlation between extreme athleticism and success at the next level.
    Paul Dehner Jr., New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Over the slow build of the season, character details emerge without need for much didactic exposition.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And the less said about the didactic, exasperating finale, the better.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Pedantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedantic. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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