incompleteness

Example Sentences

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Mr. Armitage distinguishes himself by refusing the fetish of incompleteness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

In watching Tarell soldier on while he creates, learning what his art should be as he wrestles with the gift of compassion, we come to understand what’s so aesthetically resounding in life’s gnawing incompleteness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024

However, the diversity of locomotor behaviors in living apes and the incompleteness of the fossil record have hampered the development of a clear picture of human bipedalism's origins.

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

The incompleteness of the research has not stopped governments—in China, South Korea, and the U.K.—from embedding assumptions about its prevalence and mechanisms into their laws.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023

They cabled Ferris, “Unwise to open wheel to public until opening day because of incompleteness and danger of accidents.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson