inexact
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“Assessing social and emotional dimensions of growth is an inexact science. We could assess all 4-year-olds, but we might not be measuring the right thing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
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
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
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
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