as in fastidiousness
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If a panel fails to express those subtleties, all the audience sees is a flat mass of darkness.—
Bae Dongmi,
Variety,
30 June 2025 -
Instead, this otherwise generic ballad that preaches the merits of rejoicing in partnership, love guiding the way and sacred gardens with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, showcases a trio steeped in restraint.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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Pet the gentle animals, learn about their care, and shop for ultra-soft alpaca fleece products, like socks, gloves, and scarves.—
Erin Gifford,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Eliana, a 33 year-old nurse in the hospital’s plastic surgery department, was among the mothers who gave birth in the past week, entrusting her own colleagues with her care under fire.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
20 June 2025
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Longer term, this could feed the optimization layer with live flight-ops and crew-roster data so that disruption management and maintenance planning draw from a single source of truth.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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But her unruly secrets reflect the uncomfortable truths that are so often hidden in our own histories.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
27 June 2025
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“Persnicketiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persnicketiness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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