impreciseness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for impreciseness
Noun
  • Any claim for Swift’s genius should reckon with her lapses into imprecision and pompousness.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The dearth of information has repeatedly led to inaccuracies in media reports, and on sanctions and law enforcement lists.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Some die-hard fans may prefer the simpler PlayStation localization, but the development team ditched it due to its numerous errors and inaccuracies.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The approach makes the computationally affordable method known as the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) accessible for a much wider range of real-world problems.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In these cases, the model may attempt to fill in the missing pieces with its best approximation, which can result in inaccurate or fabricated details.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The officials thought Baun lunged too late, flagging him 15 yards for unnecessary roughness and giving Denver a fresh set of downs while the Eagles only had one timeout remaining.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • One of Lipa’s most significant attributes is the husky tone of her mezzo-soprano, lending a gritty roughness to her songs’ pop polish.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So much of the film turns on such evocative inexactitude, on our ability to wonder (and wander) about the image.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Bruno was fed up with berating his cooks for all their mistakes and inexactitudes, not to mention the grumbling.
    Jonathan Kauffman, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
Noun
  • There is plenty of coarseness in American arenas totally unrelated to MAGA or Trumpism, of course.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Impreciseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impreciseness. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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