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How to pronounce “hairsplitting”
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Pronunciation guide for hairsplitting
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of hairsplitting with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
is all of it is awful, and you can't make these hairsplitting
- Definition summary
- The act of considering or arguing about fine details, or worrying about minutiae.
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How to pronounce hairsplitting
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
is all of it is awful, and you can't make these hairsplitting
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “hairsplitting”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The act of considering or arguing about fine details, or worrying about minutiae.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of hairsplit
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