How to Use pedantry in a Sentence
pedantry
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One of the most interesting aspects of the history of pedantry is that evolution of its meaning.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
27 June 2026
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What some mathematicians see as a move toward greater certainty, others might see as pedantry or a barrier to progress.
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Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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Supporters of gender-affirming care say these claims amount to pedantry, as research shows gender-affirming care is associated with improvements in mental health.
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Bob Herman,
STAT,
17 June 2026
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What our understanding of pedantry does have in common with earlier ones is the association with intellectual littleness.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
27 June 2026
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But our understanding of pedantry, denoting the sticklerishness of academic specialists and grammar obsessives, is a relatively narrow one.
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Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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