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Noun
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Any claim for Swift’s genius should reckon with her lapses into imprecision and pompousness.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is plenty of coarseness in American arenas totally unrelated to MAGA or Trumpism, of course.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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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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