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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an imperfect answer" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when acknowledging that a response may not fully address a question or issue. Example: "While I appreciate your feedback, I must admit that my response was an imperfect answer to your complex question."
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Bates Gill, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that while anti-retroviral pills need to be taken under a precise regimen, waiting for China's health system to improve was an imperfect answer.
It began as an imperfect answer to a journalistic problem, the absence of a definitive list of the dead in the days after the World Trade Center was attacked.
Politicians and physicians share a professional perspective that the painless optimal solution is often out of reach and that they'll have to settle for an imperfect answer than will impose some discomfort.
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Thus, media coverage of an emerging epidemic can fan the flames of fear and also implicitly reinforce an imperfect solution as the only answer.
He's an imperfect solution.
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Filters are an imperfect solution.
City officials say parking permits may be the imperfect answer to a years-long fight waged between residents and car dealerships along South Brand Boulevard.
The admittedly imperfect answer in that case would be to seek longer sentences for violent sex crimes to reduce the chances that dangerous predators will be released too soon, and to aggressively monitor offenders upon release with electronic bracelets and a strengthened parole system.
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