as in mistake
an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy
an unfortunate inaccuracy in the report
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Recent Examples of inaccuracy
Any falsehood or inaccuracy (real or alleged) enunciated by President Donald Trump is almost invariably immediately met with refutation, rebuke, even ridicule by his media critics and political opponents.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
The data fueling this attack came from public vehicle registration records and third-party databases, notorious for their inaccuracies.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
Editor’s Note: Please be mindful that this transcript does not go through our standard editorial process and may contain inaccuracies and grammatical errors.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 May 2025
And there were other inaccuracies in the mayor’s accounting.
—Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
The data fueling this attack came from public vehicle registration records and third-party databases, notorious for their inaccuracies.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
Editor’s Note: Please be mindful that this transcript does not go through our standard editorial process and may contain inaccuracies and grammatical errors.
—Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 May 2025
And there were other inaccuracies in the mayor’s accounting.
—Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inaccuracy
Noun
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Treating it like a cause-and-effect explanation mistakes the scoreboard for the game.—
Alexander William Salter,
National Review,
9 May 2025
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Now in the context of the very obvious dropping of moral guardrails around international relations, other countries will be less bound by a sense of world order, emboldened by an arms race, and will start to take risks and make mistakes.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Garcia, who denies gang membership, had an immigration court order protecting him from deportation, which the administration acknowledged was an administrative error.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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Betts grounded into a fielder’s choice and reached via an error on a should-have-been 6-3 putout.—
Benjamin Royer,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Be equipped to answer this when delivering bad news by understanding the root cause of the blunder.—
Kate Wieczorek,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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All the evidence points to various blunders, assumptions, policies, choices and unlucky circumstances that led to the tragedy.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Inaccuracy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inaccuracy. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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