split hairs (?.)
- analyze
- anatomize
- around the bush
- atomize
- beat about
- beg the question
- bicker
- boggle
- cavil
- change
- chop logic
- choplogic
- contradistinguish
- demarcate
- demark
- desynonymize
- difference
- differentiate
- discriminate
- disequalize
- disjoin
- distinguish
- diversify
- divide
- dodge
- draw the line
- equivocate
- evade
- evade the issue
- fence
- hedge
- individualize
- individuate
- make a distinction
- mark
- mark off
- mark out
- mark the interface
- modify
- mystify
- nitpick
- obscure
- palter
- parry
- particularize
- personalize
- pick nits
- pick out
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- refine a distinction
- screen
- screen out
- segregate
- select
- separate
- set a limit
- set apart
- set off
- sever
- severalize
- shift
- shuffle
- shy
- sidestep
- sieve
- sieve out
- sift
- sift out
- sort
- sort out
- specialize
- subdivide
- subtilize
- tergiversate
- vary
- winnow
