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Noun
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The imprecision in his birthdate, which differs from the singularness in the date of his death, feels like an open wound where the dying is more certain than the living.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026 -
A certain amount of confusion and imprecision is built into the use of the term.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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According to reports, employees expressed their gratitude that their experiences with inaccuracies by the technology were heard.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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After nearly 50 years of Iowa and New Hampshire leading the Democratic primary schedule, a 2020 Iowa caucus plagued by voting issues and inaccuracies convinced Democrats to change things up.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Since the Neo Geo’s scaling hardware can efficiently stretch those sprites vertically without much overhead, the raycasting data can be quickly converted into a chunky approximation of a first-person view.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2026
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Meaning, a wrong answer that reflects domain understanding rather than a plausible-sounding approximation.—
Sam Mugel,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
Noun
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But even something about this roughness seems, in its way, right.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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That means that one in every 17 miles of Idaho roads studied scored poor on the roughness index.—
Rose Evans
May 11,
Idaho Statesman,
11 May 2026
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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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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
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