imprecisely
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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But the term is so imprecisely defined and hard to test that it is possible for anyone to declare that they have broken through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In our 2021 Behavioral and Brain Sciences article, we reply that such concerns are misplaced because any quantity can be represented imprecisely.
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
But for such a world-conquering career an idea must correspond, however imprecisely, to something.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
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