minutiae
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minutiae (mɪˈnjuːʃɪˌiː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —pl n , sing -tia | |
| small, precise, or trifling details | |
| [C18: pl of Late Latin minūtia smallness, from Latin minūtus | |
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Minutiae
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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Example sentences
Professors are identifying with their arcane disciplines, the minutiae, the esoteric research.
They were big-picture types--not middle-management bureaucrats lost in the minutiae.
Demographers pore over the minutiae of vital and social statistics to study human populations.
It's minutiae in some ways, particularly because the phrase comes in the throat-clearing preamble.
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