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Meanings of technicality in English

Portuguese
minúncia
Catalan
petitesa

A detail that is considered insignificant.

minúncia
Usage of technicality in English
1
Mr Seymour said their application for residency was rejected on a technicality.
Radio NZ
2
You're just thinking in terms of pure technicality or in economic terms.
Wired
3
In the end the hold-up may simply be down to a technicality.
Reuters
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But that parliamentary technicality was overwhelmed by the surge of political indignation.
The Guardian
5
In Stephanie and WER's view, marriage was a technicality, not an event.
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
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A legal technicality cropped up and the trial had to be repeated.
The New North
7
I'd slipped it once on a technicality, but it wouldn't happen again.
Summer knight
8
Here was another legal technicality, but Pee-wee was equal to the occasion.
Pee-wee Harris
9
A judicial review into Ms Fifita's sacking was dismissed on a technicality.
Radio NZ
10
They are-tofall back on the ancient technicality-Realistsof a crude sort.
The New Machiavelli
11
If that minor technicality worried Walters, he gave no hint of it.
The capitol game
12
All right, you fuzzy little bugger, you got me on a technicality.
Street magic
13
They have got so now they damn a man on a technicality.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
14
The new speaker however ruled out the motion on a technicality.
Radio NZ
15
An Illinois judge dismissed a similar challenge there this week on a technicality.
Reuters
16
Turkey's ability to block the mission next year comes down to a technicality.
Reuters
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Translations for technicality
Portuguese
minúncia
Technicality through the time
Technicality across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common