as in fastidiousness
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for persnicketiness
Noun
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Or is this a kind of fastidiousness of yours?—
Cynthia Zarin,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025 -
The filmmaking is precise and refined, but free of the self-conscious fastidiousness that often passes for style on the international festival circuit.—
Jon Frosch,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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Their eagerness to satisfy his trademark meticulousness has an identifiable influence on what would become the highly secretive Pluribus.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Best Gifts for Virgo Individuals with Virgo sun signs are characterized by their organization, meticulousness, and practicality.—
Jessie Quinn,
StyleCaster,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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People would devote entire dissertations to developing techniques for distinguishing handwritten digits or for recognizing faces in images; then a deep-learning algorithm would digest the underlying data, discover the subtleties of the problem, and make those projects seem obsolete.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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The subtlety, Johnson says, is where the secret to his impression lies.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Just as essential a consideration as carefulness for committee members, though, is speed.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tabor and Sheriff Jay Cantrell both said the new quarantine space, along with other spaces being added for medical care, the intake and release of detainees, and court proceedings may allow the sheriff's office to open some areas to new programming.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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The family is reflecting on their experience at Knollwood in the facility-care system.—
Marisa Peñaloza,
NPR,
2 Nov. 2025
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After their parents got the police involved, the case remained unsolved for months until the FBI uncovered the shocking truth of who was behind the vicious messages after all.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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For four weeks, Haddish travels with her longtime best friends Selena Martin, Shermona Long, and Sparkle Clark to have a good time, of course, but to also do some bonding, confront some truths, and do some healing.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Persnicketiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persnicketiness. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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