pedantic

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Recent Examples of pedantic Newsweek Sports quoted Bruckheimer's statements, highlighting Hamilton's pedantic approach while filming. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025 Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025 The inspiring leader is a big-picture optimist while the infuriating leader a pedantic pessimist. Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 The point was not the pedantic collection of information. Sheila Heti, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pedantic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pedantic
Adjective
  • This family journey deeply shaped Fisher’s lifelong scholarly drive to chronicle the struggles and the triumphs of Black communities in the American West.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
  • Yet this has not discouraged a number of notable attempts to coerce emoji into the shape of a language, scholarly consensus be damned.
    Longreads, Longreads, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Hunter: The Reckoning puts players in the role of regular people who know monsters are real and can’t go back to their old, boring lives.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
  • The real world is monochromatic, straightforward, boring.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • When the system supports individuals, particularly those who may not be financially literate enough to override their subconscious trauma responses, the outcomes are significantly more positive.
    Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Today, Ride’s legacy lives on in Sally Ride Science, a nonprofit founded by Ride and O’Shaughnessy in 2001 to inspire girls to become scientifically literate and to draw girls and women into the STEM fields.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • For starters, the daily office routine was more tiring than what I was accustomed to back in Israel.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 July 2025
  • So 22 years ago, when her mother was pregnant with her older sister, the couple made a long and tiring trek across the border to the US.
    Jennifer Hauser, CNN Money, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • Operation Bounce House follows Oliver Lewis, a colonist on the planet New Sonora, who leads a simple life on his family ranch, playing with his band and tending to his family's selection of intelligent agriculture bots.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • These earbuds feature intelligent noise control, which removes up to twice as much background noise as previous AirPods models.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • For organizations looking to unlock efficiency and save their human workforces from dull and repetitive tasks, agents represent an exciting opportunity.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • The best vitamin C cleansers can come in handy for this—most are packed with brightening antioxidants and fruit enzymes to gently slough away dull, dead skin and protect it from free radicals.
    Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • This work bridges two worlds that have long existed apart: the tribal passion of soccer and the cerebral, curated realm of fine art.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • But that was a fun element, to play both Spencer and Caleb as cerebral together.
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • Thankfully, Keller’s scripts aren’t as twee or didactic about this stuff as Lasso and Shrinking creator Bill Lawrence’s tend to be.
    Judy Berman, Time, 4 June 2025
  • Nautilus is bold in its changes to Captain Nemo’s story — new monsters, new villains — but imitative to other genre series in execution, and the vibe is a little didactic.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 June 2025

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“Pedantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pedantic. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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