Sentence examples for imprecise at best from inspiring English sources

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But land certificates are imprecise at best, and more than half of rural households lack documentation — leaving possession dependent upon villagers' knowledge and officialdom's whims.

Where they see in Clinton a continuation of a status quo and experience of the region, Trump's approach to foreign policy is seen as wayward, imprecise at best, and contradictory.

Oddly, though, and for entirely different reasons, I agree with the AP that the terms "homophobia" and "Islamophobia" (and "biphobia" and "transphobia," for that matter) are imprecise at best, so I, too, find them problematic.

I don't wear a watch, so I must guesstimate how long I've been on the pot by following the minute hand of the clock on the wall, which is imprecise at best.

Although if you stroll along the streets of Soho today, the word "intact" may be imprecise at best, for the galleries have been replaced by high-end retailers like Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel, while shoppers and tourists outnumber artists by the many thousands to one.

In essence, we, as a community, need to agree on a common definition of 'what is a system?' Without this agreed rubric and formalisation, the term 'system' and its corollary 'sociotechnical system' remain only generally descriptive terms that are imprecise at best and actually misleading at worst.

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Late in life he gave a couple of interviews, "at best imprecise about the facts," as Wilson politely puts it.

But measuring improvements in the quality of life is an imprecise science at best.

By now, more than 27 months after the economy officially stopped shrinking and started to grow again, the word "recovery" is starting to look like an imprecise way — at best — to describe what's going on right now.

Trying to read how a jury might rule based on the evidence they request is an imprecise exercise at best, said Kieran Shanahan, a former federal prosecutor who has been attending the trial, noting that long deliberations generally favor the defense.

Since H2O and CO2 concentrations are minimum concentrations (see text for details), the depth of entrapment is imprecise and at best is a minimum estimate.

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