as in deficient
lacking some necessary part
an incomplete puzzle that has several pieces missing
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Recent Examples of incomplete
This capability is critical in real-world environments where robots must interact with objects, navigate cluttered spaces, and make decisions based on incomplete or changing information.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026
Blue Light Isn’t Actually the Main Problem The popular explanation — that blue light suppresses melatonin and throws off your circadian clock — is real but incomplete.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
Detectives’ investigation of the case is incomplete.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2026
Not wrong questions, just ones with answers that give an incomplete picture.
—Jonathan Hunt, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Apr. 2026
Blue Light Isn’t Actually the Main Problem The popular explanation — that blue light suppresses melatonin and throws off your circadian clock — is real but incomplete.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
Detectives’ investigation of the case is incomplete.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Apr. 2026
Not wrong questions, just ones with answers that give an incomplete picture.
—Jonathan Hunt, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for incomplete
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomplete
Adjective
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Clover naturally fixes nitrogen-deficient soil and improves soil fertility, which helps nearby plants.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2026
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If muscles remain depleted and incompletely repaired, each practice starts with a deficient muscular system.—
William Jones,
Ascend Agency,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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While solar eclipses, partial and total, have been captured on film, physical and digital, many times, these videos include the application of a solar filter on top of the camera’s lens.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2026
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The caucus also would deliver another $82 million in annual relief by creating a new exemption for tips earnings and expanding the state’s partial tax exemption on Social Security income to a full exclusion.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Art historians believe it was unfinished at the time El Greco died in 1614 and that it was completed by the painter’s son, Jorge Manuel, with help from other apprentices in El Greco’s workshop.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
17 Apr. 2026
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The roundabout near Zalaegerszeg is not the only unfinished or unhelpful project in Hungary to have received EU funds.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2026
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Hi-hats and snares appear in fragmentary bursts, icy synths precipitate and evaporate, and Zel slithers wryly in the cut.—
Olivier Lafontant,
Pitchfork,
25 Feb. 2026
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As a result, museums around the world hold remarkable artifacts whose backstories are thin, fragmentary or missing altogether.—
Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo,
The Conversation,
13 Feb. 2026
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The plume is made of three things: (1) steam - a lot of it; (2) ash - fine, fragmental pieces of silicate glass, not stuff from your backyard BBQ (which is burned carbon); (3) volcanic gases like CO2, SO2, H2S and others.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2011
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This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally.—
Erik Klemetti,
WIRED,
12 Apr. 2011
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“Incomplete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomplete. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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