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

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

Quantifying bot and spam accounts on Twitter was always an inexact science, which Musk seized on when he tried to concoct a way out of his deal.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023

While the figure may be inexact, as outliers can skew the average, the housing price increase in White Salmon mirrors exploding prices throughout the touristy Gorge region.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

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