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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

UPDATE: A previous version of this piece imprecisely referred to Johan Hedlund as a spokesperson for the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2021

Heard on an archival recording, the piece’s crucial staccatos are imprecisely pronounced, and the finale is shockingly subdued.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

But for such a world-conquering career an idea must correspond, however imprecisely, to something.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter