inexact

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Others combine to forge inexact recollections, grouping together years of returning to specific family properties, rental houses and cottages, condos and campsites.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2025

Any assessment of testing is always going to be inexact, based as it is on hints and snapshots of something necessarily opaque.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

In other words, the Chargers probably couldn’t go wrong with any of them, which isn’t often the case in an exercise as fickle and inexact as the NFL draft.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2024

Once in a while, I feel so sad that I’ll never understand a piece of translated writing the way it’s really meant to be understood, because even the most exquisite translations are, by definition, inexact.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

Within a few hundred years, the big men acquired *Here, as elsewhere in this book, I am being chronologically inexact.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann