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be inexact

adjective

Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.

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Journalism can be inexact.

Thirty or so letters, to be inexact — at times longing, heartfelt, hilarious and maddening — written in longhand by Samuel Patrick Howard, on page after loose-leaf page.

Furthermore, the dating methods used can be inexact, thrown off by hundreds of years because of a fish-rich diet, for example.

Any comparison between these figure and the 15,000 homeless families of 1976 will be inexact, as counting methods and homelessness definitions have altered over the years.

The result was that any comparison between 2008 and 2016 would be inexact as Democrats would benefit from a significant head start this year.

Few such places have reliable records of their citizens' assets or earnings, and without such information, attempts to pick out the neediest from the masses will inevitably be inexact.

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The calculations are inexact.

"Sure, science is inexact.

Moreover, the model is inexact.

The analogy, of course, is inexact.

Parallels to the present are inexact.

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