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Recent Examples of imprecise While its consumer protection goals are laudable, its imprecise drafting introduces ambiguity that employers and background screening providers must now navigate. Alonzo Martinez, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 The primary challenge lay in the imprecise historical records — Philibert Germain’s original notes provided only a vague description of the collection site within a sprawling hacienda. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 For the remaining treatments, their effectiveness was found to be inconclusive due to small samples, imprecise studies, or low and very low quality evidence. Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Mar. 2025 Our reliance on digital tools is relatively new, and the tools neuroscientists have to observe human brain activity are imprecise and confined to labs. Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for imprecise
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Adjective
  • How to lose weight Health experts stress that tactics to lose large amounts of weight quickly are either inaccurate or unsustainable.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The impact could be inaccurate diagnoses, which could cost lives and break down trust in the healthcare system.
    Christian Espinosa, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • To Sturzenegger, that was in the approximate vicinity where Warren said the initial searches for Brick took place.
    David Chiu, People.com, 14 May 2025
  • These kinds of approximate methods could eventually inform the waveform templates that are so crucial for filtering out noise in upcoming gravitational-wave detectors, Plefka says.
    Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 13 May 2025

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