incomplete

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Hours after the speech, Iran rejected assessments that its military capabilities had weakened, calling them incomplete or incorrect.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

But the mere possibility that they might has already accomplished something important: It has exposed how incomplete our understanding of consciousness still is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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

Fossils from South America were often incomplete, leaving major gaps in the evolutionary story.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

But it might also have seemed curiously incomplete, with half the city falling down and in need of repairs and the other half under construction.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann