incomplete

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The broader scientific community needed extensive discussion and debate before considering the possibility that earlier interpretations might be incomplete.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

It has run various projects to digitize and share the archives publicly before, which have resulted in incomplete, outdated and user-unfriendly databases, but still says it wants to do it itself.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

In 2023, the Blues were fined £8.6m by Uefa for "submitting incomplete financial information" for the period between 2012 and 2019.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Swift published this incomplete text posthumously in 1701.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton