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Noun
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A certain amount of confusion and imprecision is built into the use of the term.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026 -
The evidence is considered very low certainty due to the studies’ risk of bias, inconsistency, and imprecision.—
Theresa Gaffney,
STAT,
17 Feb. 2026
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This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.—
Sandra Guzman,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
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With the names of the two Kansas Cities firmly established over time, complaints about their dullness or geographical inaccuracy were largely confined to letters to the editor.—
Elijah Winkler,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
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Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla, but are not precisely defined in the company's shareholder communications.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2026
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Suddenly, LeBron looked, if not his age, then at least a rough approximation of it.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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In the final two minutes and overtime, the limits expand to include unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct.—
Nick Harris
April 1,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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Interest in imperfection, roughness, and asymmetry was already growing in the digital era before AI arrived.—
Andrey Mir,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 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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“Impreciseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impreciseness. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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