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An earlier version of this obituary referred imprecisely to the role of Lester Crown, Mr. Crown’s father, in the purchase of minority interests in the Chicago Bulls and the New York Yankees.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023

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

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 Joyce, James