incomplete

Example Sentences

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The broader scientific community needed extensive discussion and debate before considering the possibility that earlier interpretations might be incomplete.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

It has run various projects to digitize and share the archives publicly before, which have resulted in incomplete, outdated and user-unfriendly databases, but still says it wants to do it itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

And it was about a rules-based order, no matter how incomplete that might be.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

A recent “point in time” count, as they’re called, the famously incomplete snapshot of how many people are homeless in a city on a given night, clocked the city’s homeless population at 2,500.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

To tell her that I missed her, and I had, but it used to be me and Audrey and Jesse, and we were still incomplete.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson