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• this also means that the 9-volt is the only battery in the grocery stores that is actually a *battery*, i.e. a plurality of separate cells working together, rather than a single cell. you can make a lot of friends in the world by saying, "i don't like to be pedantic, but that AA really isn't a battery, you know; just a cell. Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
• Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
• I had the same middle parted haircut for eight years, and I was quite pedantic about this being perfect.
• She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me. Broken Music, A Memoir
• Not only was I tired, but listening to the same pedantic metaphysical reasoning for the second time from my friend, normally a lively conversationist, bored me out of my skull. An East Wind Coming
• The hatred of the pedantic is the characteristic sentiment of the time. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
• It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
• I'm not saying that ethics committees that question research proposals are always being pedantic.
• No wonder some find his music insufferably boring and pedantic.
• The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.