How to Use technicality in a Sentence

technicality

noun
  • These cases were dropped because of legal technicalities.
  • The technicality could result in a dismissal of the case, the judge said.
    Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
  • The event is called SpeedWeeks, but the claim comes on a technicality because the 500 is on Sunday, the start of the new week.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The case dragged on until 2007, when the verdict ruled in Goodyear’s favor based on a technicality in the law.
    Emily Farra, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2019
  • This time, a D.C. appeals court judge threw the case out on a technicality.
    Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
  • And the Yankees have yet to lose more than two games in a row this season — except on a technicality.
    Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • The technicality of 2025 still being part of the application is a result of the length of this process.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • But he was denied a place on the ballot on a technicality two weeks ago.
    Kostya Manenkov, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • So don’t put too much on the technicality of just one act, and instead think of ~losing it~ as a progression.
    Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
  • So don't put too much on the technicality of just one act, and instead think of ~Losing It~ as a progression.
    Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The league should want an iconic player to remain with his team, not for him to be dumped over a technicality.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The technicality invoked by City’s lawyers clinched the case.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Then, in what was seen as a huge victory for gay Ugandans, it was struck down by the courts on a technicality.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Fans of the long-running game show are up in arms over a technicality that came into play on Wednesday's episode.
    Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2021
  • For a fortnight, on a technicality, for the only time in 12 years, Aidan had a straight-A average.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At least this is an argument about a technicality in the law.
    Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Without snow, there is less gear involved and less technicality in the climb.
    oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • At 86 he was sentenced to 80 years in jail, only for the conviction to be quashed on a technicality.
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • At the same time, Rosenstein’s message may have been based on a technicality.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Taking us from the technicalities of growing through to bottling, the tour ended with a six-wine tasting at the on-site restaurant, The Swan.
    Tyler Wetherall, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2018
  • The world championships are the American’s first meet since a technicality helped him avoid a ban for three missed drug tests.
    Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The fence was a technicality, and water was the real problem.
    Bradley Babendir, Longreads, 7 June 2018
  • On Christmas Eve of 2014, a Supreme Court justice freed him on a technicality.
    Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The news of my win came a month later, but it was retracted soon thereafter based on a technicality.
    Time, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Creed lost a heavyweight fight to Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago, but kept his belt due to a technicality.
    Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
  • There was one ratified in 1992, but that’s kind of a technicality.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The transactional technicality with Jankowski likely spelled the end of Jose Pirela’s time with the Padres.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
  • In the end, the organization got no money at all from the bill because of a technicality.
    NBC News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • There were 10 takes total, two of those having a stop and start because of camera technicalities.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Frick-Wright: So despite coming in just a technicality away from the podium, Evan still broke his personal record in that race.
    Outside Online, 17 July 2024

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