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• r  in a pedantic manner
  these interpretations are called `schemas' or, more pedantically, `schemata'

• Most of the questions were pedantically dull, and neither side made a respectable showing.
• In Krull, Thomas Mann tried to avoid that tension by laughingironically, a little pedantically, but joyously, tooat human folly.
• New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan is pedantically precise.