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purist
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Shifting Your Mindset Is In Some public relations purists argue that putting numbers to narratives diminishes the essence of the work, that introducing metrics into the mix somehow reduces the craft to calculation.—
Chintan Shah,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025 -
For purists, the Urus was already a compromise anyway, seen as necessary to keep the lights on at Lambo and keep supercar development humming—but otherwise a mild shame.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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“Hairsplitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hairsplitter. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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