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inaccuracy

[in-ak-yer-uh-see] / ɪnˈæk yər ə si /


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He added that "as your travel time increases, you're going to get compounding errors in your guidance system… the inaccuracy of your missile is going to increase".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The inaccuracy of those predictions suggests a profound disconnect existed between what old-guard Hollywood thought audiences wanted and what those audiences didn’t even know they wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“However, as the initiatives drove a real decline in unsheltered homelessness, they also removed the easiest-to-count unsheltered subpopulation,” likely contributing to the annual count’s growing inaccuracy, the report said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

Cody writes that Alanis was “always open” to poking gentle fun at the song and “there is such a discourse around the inaccuracy of that song.”

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

He didn’t care about his personal reputation if I chose to portray him inaccurately, he said, but he did care greatly about the harm any inaccuracy might do to his credibility in the medical world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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