imperfectly

Example Sentences

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"In the States, progress is happening, slowly, imperfectly, but happening. Disabled people are being invited into more spaces," she explains.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

The giver operates under uncertainty, time pressure and limited data, with incentives only imperfectly aligned with the recipient’s utility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

It might acknowledge they were following the policy imperfectly, but it’ll say: Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, told agents to do this.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2025

Responding imperfectly in a moment of great stress doesn’t mean that this is a story designed to show how women fail each other, or how women are pitted against each other, or to regress feminism.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025

But the background radiation, when examined to finer precision, proves to be imperfectly symmetrical.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan