Example sentences for: pedant

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  • Once again the historical pedant, he explained why the Clinton campaign-finance scandal--which he previously called merely "worse than Watergate"--is actually tantamount to the fall of Rome.

  • GeneQuiz focuses on homolog and function assignment through sequence similarity search; PEDANT is a comprehensive analysis pipeline with emphasis on gene prediction, secondary and tertiary structure assignment; iGAP puts much more emphasis on fold recognition, threading and, to be released in the near future, homology modeling.

  • If an American writer quotes a British speaker as saying, “Honor thy father,” it would be arrant nonsense for some pedant to say, “If he is British, he did not say that.

  • As a registered pedant, I cannot refrain from posing this political trivia question: Who was the original éminence grise on whom Shearer's word play is based?

  • MatDB, based on PEDANT analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana , provides structural annotations using SCOP domain position specific scoring matrix (PSSM) profiles.


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