imprecisely
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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You can represent someone's height precisely as 1.9 meters, but you can also represent it imprecisely as almost two meters.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023
They added that the FBI agent’s question was imprecisely worded because an email exchange between Danchenko and Dolan was not the same as “talking,” which is the word the FBI agent used during the interview.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2022
In a 2019 post on the EA Forum, MacAskill wrote that "longtermism" could be defined "imprecisely" in several ways.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2022
In Germany, that means no hate speech—a concept that is imprecisely defined, but undoubtedly encompasses categories of protected speech in the United States.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020
He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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