inexactness

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“The reality is there is inexactness in a huge range of terminology within the foundation sector,” said Lori Villarosa, PRE’s executive director.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2021

The inexactness of the tools leaves holes in what researchers can reasonably say about boredom.

From Nature • Jan. 11, 2016

“For consequential problems, where inexact results could cause a bridge to be misdesigned, or erroneous conclusions about the mechanics of climate, the inexactness is problematic.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2015

There is often a disconcerting inexactness about today's rhetoric of dissent.

From Time Magazine Archive

I cannot fit you these on with a quite comfortable exactness, but with very slight inexactness I can fit them firmly.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by Ruskin, John