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What does hair-splitting mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hair-splitting? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
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A good example of this is the often hair-splitting legal distinctions between valid and invalid transfers.
To argue that this is bad news because it is slightly higher than analysts expected is surely to enter the realm of statistical hair-splitting.
There isn't room for hair-splitting when it comes to the Jedwabne massacre.
How can the Supreme Court possibly know what the most divisive policy is with respect to these hair-splitting distinctions.
Any delineation between the nominally public and non-public spheres is now a hair-splitting irrelevancy.
I've never been surer of anything in my life, despite what they say about their hair-splitting coverage.

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