incomplete

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It has run various projects to digitize and share the archives publicly before, which have resulted in incomplete, outdated and user-unfriendly databases, but still says it wants to do it itself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

A recent “point in time” count, as they’re called, the famously incomplete snapshot of how many people are homeless in a city on a given night, clocked the city’s homeless population at 2,500.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

"Treating 'Hormuz security' as a chokepoint-only problem is analytically incomplete," naval analyst Tayfun Ozberk, a former Turkish navy officer, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

The observation suggests that current theoretical explanations are incomplete and that scientists need a more sophisticated framework to explain why some decays release one neutron while others release two.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

I have the sense that, like one of a pair of bookends, he is incomplete by himself.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood