incompleteness

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Mr. Armitage distinguishes himself by refusing the fetish of incompleteness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

In watching Tarell soldier on while he creates, learning what his art should be as he wrestles with the gift of compassion, we come to understand what’s so aesthetically resounding in life’s gnawing incompleteness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024

The rarity of Middle Jurassic pterosaur fossils and their incompleteness has previously hampered attempts to understand early pterosaur evolution.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

The incompleteness of the research has not stopped governments—in China, South Korea, and the U.K.—from embedding assumptions about its prevalence and mechanisms into their laws.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023

The pattern of evolutionary causality is a web of astonishing complexity; the incompleteness of our understanding humbles us.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan