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Six example sentences with pedantic, each labelled with its topic.
His critique was so pedantic that he spent ten minutes on the copyright font and none on the picture.
Photography
Reviewers called the new style guide pedantic because it rejected pull requests over the placement of a single comma.
Technology
The judge grew pedantic about julienne widths while the sauce he ignored separated quietly on the plate.
Cooking
The footnotes are pedantic, correcting the poet's dates and spellings while ignoring what the poem actually says.
Literature
The seminar grew pedantic, spending an hour on whether a term should be translated as being or as existence.
Philosophy
The pedantic teacher stopped the student at every wrong fingering and never let her play a full phrase.
Music
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