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What does nitpicking mean?

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Noun
  1. The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
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The government must thus take its role of an economic statesman and regulator seriously and stop nitpicking at micro levels.
I have heard people nitpicking about certain regulations or concerns about the bill.
Hollywood turns brides-to-be into petty, vulgar, nitpicking obsessives.
He may start nitpicking over virtually every script point, insisting on protracted creative colloquies with his director.
By consulting the parties concerned, it should be possible, for example, to avoid nitpicking rules and rules which cannot be applied in practice.
The U. S. must not, with nitpicking measures, block off or close their border or slow down road and commercial traffic between the two countries.

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