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  1. hairsplitters: Merriam-Webster
  2. hairsplitters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hairsplitters: Vocabulary.com
  4. hairsplitters: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hairsplitter)

noun:  A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).
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