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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fine point of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific detail or nuance in a discussion or argument.
Example: "During the debate, she made a fine point of the importance of ethical considerations in technology."
Alternatives: "a subtle aspect of" or "a crucial detail of".
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It's a fine point of law.
Gastromasochists have likened it to molten lava, burning needles, and "the tip of my tongue being branded by a fine point of heated steel".
People seemed to like joining a group that helped tide them through an illness yet allowed them to sit with friends over a glass of tea and argue a fine point of radical politics.
That anxiety appeared to relent somewhat as Dinah Rose, one of Mr. Assange's lawyers, rose to request a two-week delay in carrying out the decision, saying the court appeared to have made its ruling on a fine point of European law that had not been raised by either side at an earlier Supreme Court hearing on the case.
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She does not put a fine point on the verifiability of the novel's events.
(Shouldn't it be, "Let us go then, you and me"?) During a discussion of a finer point of grammar, Conroy barked, "I wouldn't know any of that!" And then he pointed his finger at Robinson.
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While this may seem like a fine point, much of the manuscript reads as something of a house of cards that is strongly presented as fact.
All these creatures are drawn in profile with a fine point, and some of their silhouettes have been filled in with a brush or a stumping cloth.
"It's a bit of a fine point, but I like to think of my vote as not against the Olympics but about were we ready," he said.
That is a fine point in an indictment of the professional political class, but it is not a defense of Trump.
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