inexact

Example Sentences

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“Assessing social and emotional dimensions of growth is an inexact science. We could assess all 4-year-olds, but we might not be measuring the right thing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Others combine to forge inexact recollections, grouping together years of returning to specific family properties, rental houses and cottages, condos and campsites.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

Any assessment of testing is always going to be inexact, based as it is on hints and snapshots of something necessarily opaque.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

Quantifying bot and spam accounts on Twitter was always an inexact science, which Musk seized on when he tried to concoct a way out of his deal.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

An inexact distance that holds nothing but Ally’s words.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson