incomplete

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The result was the teaching of an incomplete history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

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

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

"Treating 'Hormuz security' as a chokepoint-only problem is analytically incomplete," naval analyst Tayfun Ozberk, a former Turkish navy officer, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

It is, of course, an incomplete comfort to read this sort of thing to one’s self.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas