How to Use inaccurate in a Sentence

inaccurate

adjective
  • The fact that the school claims to be nonsectarian does not give it the right to be inaccurate.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In a statement to CNN, Jones said the details of the conversation in the claim were inaccurate.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In a statement to Bloomberg, TikTok said the figure is inaccurate.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The way that that testing was presented to the jury was inaccurate.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Brock Purdy couldn’t grip the ball in the rain and was unusually inaccurate.
    Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Lost or damaged goods and inaccurate records also play a part.
    Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Tweets with hateful and inaccurate content have spiked since Musk’s takeover, researchers claimed to Bloomberg last week.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The company employs thousands of workers in the US, and its claims are inaccurate, in my opinion.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Worse, the statute authorizes Ms. James to bring a civil-fraud suit for inaccurate statements discovered in the process.
    Philip Hamburger, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Moreno said the posts are inaccurate and misconstrue the nature of the urban planning framework.
    Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Though the numbers were not great and a number of footballs were inaccurate, Watson seemed to be in complete control of himself and the offense.
    Lance Reisland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Peters was a senior member of Feuer’s team when the DWP rolled out a new system that sent inaccurate bills to hundreds of thousands of customers.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Your right to correct inaccurate info is codified in all of these states as well, except for Utah.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
  • But Mayor Samantha Kaag said that number was inaccurate and two had been killed.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • That sounds a lot like a shinier version of a polygraph, which is pretty widely understood to be inaccurate.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Deters claims the paperwork Massie filed to run for office is inaccurate and should be voided.
    Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Charlie Adelson took the stand in his own defense and told the jury the prosecution's theory of the case was inaccurate.
    Alison Lynn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The unusual move comes two days after WMC stood by the claims the ads made, despite the victim at the center of the case saying the broadcasts retraumatized her and were inaccurate.
    Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Beiers said that was inaccurate; the system was two-way, with the judge, court staff and witnesses able to view a screen showing activities in the nearby public room.
    Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2024
  • After news of the lawsuit broke, Leakes posted a video on Instagram saying that the story was inaccurate.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • In March, Google was called out after a demo of Bard provided an inaccurate response to a question about a telescope.
    Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • In the United States in the 1970s, there were a few (often inaccurate) news accounts, but the deaths were considered accidents and forgotten.
    John Branch, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
  • To his credit, Humphrey does acknowledge that these reports could be inaccurate or overblown.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
  • While Harry and William have lashed out at relentless, often inaccurate, coverage by the tabloid press, some of the ripest morsels about the House of Windsor never surface in the papers.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Google was called out after a demo of Bard provided an inaccurate response to a question about a telescope.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But they've been met with a flood of bad info—old videos, fake photos, and inaccurate reports—that researchers say is unprecedented.
    WIRED, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The act rises to a felony when the inaccurate record is entered as part of an effort to commit a different, underlying crime, the attorneys said.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Moreover, this was all based on people reporting their own sleep levels, which can be quite inaccurate.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But Sloan and other business owners described the groups’ tactics as efforts to stoke misplaced and, at times, inaccurate outrage.
    Michael Williams, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The judge ruled that the allegations were inaccurate or misleading.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023

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