inexact
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These numbers are seasonally adjusted, and the government’s process for doing so is sometimes inexact, to say the least.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
“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
Airdropping aid, food, and supplies is expensive, inexact, and inefficient and usually only a last resort when your enemies have left you no other options.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2024
Within a few hundred years, the big men acquired *Here, as elsewhere in this book, I am being chronologically inexact.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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