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

Airdropping aid, food, and supplies is expensive, inexact, and inefficient and usually only a last resort when your enemies have left you no other options.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2024

Realism wasn’t the point; certainly it was an inexact portrayal of the workings of a football team, off and on the pitch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023

An inexact distance that holds nothing but Ally’s words.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson