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Recent Examples of inexact There’s a key caveat here, which is that estimating reps in reserve is an inexact art. Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 19 May 2025 Freud’s notion of remembering, the inexact reiteration of what came before, is where creativity emerges—that slight drift from the original that lets something unlikely slip in. Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025 Trying to predict the strength of a schedule is an inexact science because teams do change a lot from season to season, whether that would be in free agency, the NFL Draft or changes to the front office and coaching staff. Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025 People who know the Buss and Lakers family history will recognize plenty of partial or inexact overlap. Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inexact
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexact
Adjective
  • La Liga has publicly released the approximate dates that next season's editions of El Clasico between bitter rivals FC Barcelona and Real Madrid will take place.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The Tribune was able to calculate approximate amounts based on the language of the agreements and other public records.
    Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • In numerous replies and posts, Grok wrote messaged that glorified Adolf Hitler, attached stereotypes to users with Jewish surnames and spread erroneous conspiracy theories about the role of Jewish people in government, commerce and media.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 10 July 2025
  • Because of erroneous information on the website for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), a story published July 6 on Page A1 incorrectly reported that former San Jose police officer George Brown’s police license with the state had been taken off suspension.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, though Republican leaders dismissed the projection as inaccurate.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2025
  • And finding those homes proved challenging because many records were missing or inaccurate — some handwritten on notecards dating to the early 1900s.
    Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Rumors the man lost a limb are incorrect, friends of the victim with Raw Surf posted on the business' Facebook page.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 July 2025
  • An online commercial real estate site, LoopNet.com, still showed the theater property as up for auction Thursday, but Robinson said the listing is incorrect.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • However, according to the Baseball Rules Academy, the umpires got the call wrong.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • One of the company’s big assumptions about the phone had turned out to be wrong.
    Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • As surprising as this imprecise relationship may be, the Fed simply can’t ignore the pesky laws of economics.
    Norbert Michel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Areas with bag rules also demonstrated a 30 percent to 37 percent reduction in the presence of entangled animals, although the authors noted that these results were imprecise.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 19 June 2025

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“Inexact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexact. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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