See hair-splitting on Wiktionary
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"Gérondif de split hairs ;composé de hair et de splitting."
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"ref": "Jake Wallis Simons, Britain is right to support Palestine at the UN – and so should Israel, The Telegraph, novembre 2012",
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"Argutie, tétrapilectomie, fait de couper les cheveux en quatre."
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