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accuracy

[ak-yer-uh-see] / ˈæk jər ə si /


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Howe said that Witherspoon appeared less concerned with factual accuracy than when parts of the story didn’t ring emotionally true.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Some have questioned the historical accuracy of reports into the level of the Church's complicity, while others have raised legal concerns about it and ideological objections.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Did they believe, or hope, that the improved speed and accuracy of the latest weapons and control-systems might override the lessons of history?

From Slate Jul. 30, 2026

But factual accuracy was never really the point.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

The result was a quite new type of intellectual culture: innovative, combative, competitive, but at the same time obsessed with accuracy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Still, though, the ALA's reliance on media accounts and reports from librarians remains a confounding variable in the numerical accuracies, as the body has previously noted.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2024

This outperformed other methods, both shallow and deep learning, which had accuracies below 80%.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2023

“That report was not completely accurate but there’s some accuracies in it,” said Jayna Hefford, a four-time Olympic gold medalist for Canada who is the PWHPA’s lead operations consultant.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 9, 2023

Let the D.C. curriculum reflect the historical accuracies, including the murder — the Holocaust — of millions, particularly Jews, during World War II.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2023

The Comtist replies that the task is philosophic, and is not to be judged by the minute accuracies of science.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 10: Auguste Comte by Morley, John




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