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technicality

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Recent Examples of technicality The precision, the technicality, the painting of that picture was incredible. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025 Hernandez has no criminal record beyond that technicality, but faced deportation nevertheless. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025 The Chiefs’ pass rush was non-existent, bringing Justin Herbert to the ground only once in the 21 dropbacks — and that came on a technicality. Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025 The culprit, though known, remains free on a technicality. Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for technicality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for technicality
subtlety
Noun
  • There’s no subtlety to All’s Fair’s interest in the problems of the wealthy.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • And these subtleties, called micro- or meso-expressions, vary from one culture to the next, as well as among individuals within each culture.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Technicality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technicality. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.

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