How To Use Imprecise In A Sentence
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When I wrote, imprecisely, that domestic subsidies for agricultural commodities are equivalent to protective tariffs, I was groping at the notion that in both cases (1) domestic consumers/taxpayers pay a premium above the world price and (2) that foreign producers are discouraged from entering the domestic market.
The Case for Free Trade, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
Ulysses
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But the videos of robotic forms, Imprecise Bodies, that ooze into other forms, as if Salvador Dalí were haunting them, make an argument that there's life left in surrealism, thanks to the imagination that Netzhammer brings to it.
GreenCine Daily: Miami Dispatch.
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It will simply conceal whatever gaps in communication there are under another layer of imprecise language.
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Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.
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The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
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Recording beach litter is an imprecise science, at best a fuzzy snapshot of a particular day.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, this technique is imprecise and can be messy and difficult to accomplish.
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But food intolerance is a rather imprecise term.
The Sun
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That's probably a terribly untechnical and imprecise way of asking, Can she take a term that she didn't invent and that everyone has been using freely for months and actually get legal protection for it?
Trademarking "Octomom."
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.
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We laypeople tend to use the word imprecisely to allude to fragility or vulnerability in old people, but for physicians and researchers, frailty is a specific medical syndrome with measurable criteria.
NYT > Home Page
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Viewed collectively, all these imprecise images speak expressively of his key virtue—his remarkable selflessness.
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[Roderick Chisholm, Boundaries as Dependent Particulars (1984: 88)] “The reason why it's vague where the outback begins is not that there's this thing, the outback, with imprecise borders; rather there are many things, with different borders, and nobody has been fool enough to try to enforce a choice of one of them as the official referent of the word ˜outback™.”
Boundary
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By this, I have always meant as at "Qumran" -- the name scholars give to the subject of "the Dead Sea Scrolls" to avoid repeating this tedious phraseology -- it being the location of the River Wadi emptying into the Dead Sea where the Scrolls were found what the documents themselves say and not the more imprecise conclusions of paleography, archaeology or even AMS carbon dating, such as these may be.
Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update)
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Even when used in a statement so imprecise as the one he had just vocalized, it sounded as though Seth had it all planned out anyway.
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Any definition of qualitative research would be elusive, vague, and imprecise.
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the terms he used were imprecise and emotional
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But food intolerance is a rather imprecise term.
The Sun
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Making awards for bravery is an imprecise science.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alcohol affects the brain, making speech slurred and imprecise.
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He made the very good point that the draft bill is imprecise.
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Breach of the peace" is a notoriously imprecise notion.
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When this model first came out, the steering was imprecise, the suspension bumped all over the place and the engines could, at the most charitable, have been described as wheezy.
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The limited information provided on this test was scant and imprecise, and I found it of no assistance.
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These are important methods for looking into the past, but relatively imprecise for dating events.
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Though Spock had long ago accepted the reality—indeed, the necessity—of the feelings his mind generated, and though he regularly allowed himself to experience what he imprecisely regarded as his “human half,” he still sustained considerable control over his internal life.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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Breach of the peace" is a notoriously imprecise notion.
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What makes an even greater mockery of the codes is that the Torah today is somewhat imprecise in that some of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet can be replaced by vowels and we are not certain whether the vowel, or the letter itself, should be in certain passages.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Rise of the Religious Charlatans
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I did not like the imprecise nature of the way the game is played on linksland.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was rather imprecise about the cost of the trip.
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Birks of the University of Bergen in Norway--a very nice city by the way discuss the advances that have been made in paleoecology, moving from a largely descriptive and imprecise discipline to one they believe offers much for the future of conservation practice.
What is Natural?
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The food is poorly made, imprecise and coarsely seasoned: less good than you'd expect from the chill counter of a supermarket.
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There is evidence that it is changing colour again into an imprecise and ironic boo-word.
Times, Sunday Times
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On some wine lists in the English-speaking world all German wines, other than those regarded as Mosel (or often ‘Moselle’), appear somewhat imprecisely under the heading ‘Rhine’.
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And I spoke imprecisely, and have been corrected: “A boat floats because it (including its load) weighs exactly as much as the water it displaces …”
Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers
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Music may have meaning, but it is an imprecise language, a language of suggestion and imagery rather than verbal description.
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The diagnosis of PND is becoming increasingly imprecise, with no agreed and universally accepted symptoms.
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At the moment police can pull over motorists on suspicion of drug-driving, but can arrest them only if they fail relatively imprecise physical and mental impairment tests.
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It is always more difficult to try and justify the status quo than to wave the banner for a bold, if imprecise, vision of things to come.
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Frankly, forecasting for a company that is growing so rapidly is an imprecise science.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difference is subtile, and is technically probably not meaningful… but “randomness” feels like it drags in some unrelated and imprecise baggage.
Randomly growing an embryo. It can work. - The Panda's Thumb
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Range of movement in the elbow deteriorated less in the direct access group but goniometry measurements can be imprecise.
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imprecise astronomical observations
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However these different precytokinesis cell-cycle arrest phenotypes are all imprecise, as the arrested cells repeatedly re-enter S-phase, and show characteristic multinuclear, multikinetoplast and multiflagellar phenotypes.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise.
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Re - align your screen whenever your stylus seems imprecise or unresponsive.
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We can let all the other imprecise statements and ungrounded assertions go, but you should at least try to address these points.
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Making awards for bravery is an imprecise science.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reason it's vague where the outback begins is not that there's this thing, the outback, with imprecise borders; rather there are many things, with different borders, and nobody has been fool enough to try to enforce a choice of one of them as the official referent of the word ˜outback.™
Determinates vs. Determinables
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I then given an example, which Kevin imprecisely describes as “a dumb email [Bernstein] received that used the term both incorrectly and insultingly.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Likudnik, Part II:
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The biggest source of error about the size and shape of the Sun is imprecise knowledge about the size and shape of the Moon.
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Viewed collectively, all these imprecise images speak expressively of his key virtue—his remarkable selflessness.
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An in-class semantic (referring to the meaning of words) or verbal paraphasia is a word usage that, although imprecise, remains understandable because the approximate word or phrase relates to some characteristic of the precise word (e.g., its basic function or class).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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I decided not to say that her original instruction had been imprecise to the point of incomprehensibility and her anger an inappropriate response to uncertainty.
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In the old days, when cars had carburetors, fuel metering was so imprecise that the carburetor would pour way too much fuel into the cylinders at idle.
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First is the duality obvious in all of Carter's work: polarity of opinion, love/hate, but also the contrast between the decorative and the practical in her work, the imprecise and the rigorous.
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These are questions we can answer only imprecisely.
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Frankly, forecasting for a company that is growing so rapidly is an imprecise science.
Times, Sunday Times
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Current data on which regulatory decisions are based, because they are incomplete, give an imprecise estimate of risk.
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By comparing the result with the original, he learned to correct awkward phrases and imprecise passages in his work.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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The estimates for waiting times are not quantitatively reliable because they depend exponentially on imprecisely known quantities.
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Found good positions but crosses were often imprecise and finishing was ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recording beach litter is an imprecise science, at best a fuzzy snapshot of a particular day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Weakness of trace impouring imprecisely was avoided by mixing UDMH and internal standard solution.
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In particular, how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated?
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The witness's descriptions were too imprecise to be of any real value.
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In contrast, the 12 essential genes known to exist within the mitotic heterochromatin of chromosome 3 have remained only imprecisely mapped.
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Too often, the descriptions are imprecise, perhaps because of Johnson's overzealous desire to unleash sequence after sequence of arresting images, even if it means lulling us into uncertainty.
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The original photo caption was imprecise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Making awards for bravery is an imprecise science.
Times, Sunday Times
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His notes and recollection were at times unclear, imprecise or entirely lacking.
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Of course, their definition or, most irritating, the definitition in most portraiture books of what is the browline is so vague and their cyclopic fiddling with the thumb on the brush gives such imprecise measurements that you can fit just about anything to their preconceptions.
Pyle on Light and Shadow
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The article abounds with graphs sporting unlabeled axes, imprecise axis scales, inaccurately plotted points, and confused methods explanations.
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An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the geographical reach of the rally.
Rally to Restore Authority
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In the old days, when cars had carburetors, fuel metering was so imprecise that the carburetor would pour way too much fuel into the cylinders at idle.
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I suspect that the definition of spoiled child is as imprecise and variable as the kids you are likely to meet.
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Most stores will not be held liable if your custom window coverings do not fit due to your imprecise measurements.
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Age can be determined, but it is imprecise and the final decision could well be up to individual inspectors.
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Ireland were not without threat in attack, yet the final pass was often imprecise and their forays forward left holes at the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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But if "numskull" is an imprecise description of the president, it is not altogether inaccurate.
Hullabaloo
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She was rather imprecise about the cost of the trip.
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The original photo caption was imprecise.
Times, Sunday Times
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All I did was illustrate how absurd and imprecise your label was with another absurd and imprecise label.
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Undoubtedly, English law was imprecise on the matter of obscenity, and the jurist might well have found this irritating.
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A similar difficulty stems from the imprecise concept of a capital expenditure.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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But the central thesis of the work was that these leaders generally make decisions based on imprecise readings of the past.
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Appended to the very top of that article is now a correction which, more or less, acknowledges that the original article "imprecisely" described the provisions of the bill.
The completely unreliable Washington Post
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The presence of so many imponderable factors necessarily renders the process a complex and imprecise one and one which is incapable of producing anything better than an approximate result.
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The administration of justice is a very, very imprecise science.
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She was rather imprecise about the cost of the trip.
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In a very loose and imprecise sense that may be accurate but it is not accurate for the purpose of proper analysis.
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Traditionally determinism has been given various, usually imprecise definitions.
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Imprecise language is a breeding ground for inaccuracy, and can be easily avoided.
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Current data on which regulatory decisions are based, because they are incomplete, give an imprecise estimate of risk.
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A stimulant is a rather imprecise term used for a variety of different kinds of drug, some with medical uses and others with only recreational use.
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There must be appropriate minimums, and proper grading according to proper marks - with a clear outcome, unobscured by imprecise euphemisms.
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The Jobclock system, designed exclusively for the construction trades, eliminates inaccurate or imprecise timecards.
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One-size-fits-all criminal label What's more, the term "illegal immigrant" is imprecise.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The first three years of George II's reign, which began in 1727, were afflicted by successive waves of smallpox and influenza-like infections, imprecisely and variously described by contemporaries as agues and fevers.
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I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise.
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Modern day regulation is often typified by imprecise language, poorly drafted complaints and regulations, and an over-abundance of publicity-seeking bosses who steal the limelight from their hard working staff.
Bill Singer: Insider Trading: Frequent Flyers, Potatoes and Macy's
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By comparing the result with the original, he learned to correct awkward phrases and imprecise passages in his work.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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But this sort of imprecise talk would have seen Ken and his Hush Puppies laughed out of Nottingham assizes.
Hugh Muir's Diary
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Leiter makes sweeping and imprecise generalizations that turn out to be arrant nonsense, however you interpret them.
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he expressed himself imprecisely
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But the science of carbon sinks is terrifyingly imprecise, scientists warn.
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Compared to music, he felt that words were imprecise and crude when describing emotions.
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Used imprecisely, ‘war’ assumes rhetorical importance as a way to mobilize popular support, express seriousness of intention, and prepare the citizens for sacrifices.
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The figures are imprecise because they're based on a prediction of next year's sales.
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Writing about graphic design unfortunately tends to be imprecise when not wholly inaccurate.
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Riots do tend to be woefully imprecise, but they are generally not random or unmotivated.
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But war is easy to criticize – the inhumanity of, as hell, done imperfectly/imprecisely, its inherent chauvinism and “unfairness,” etc.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Changing Conflict in Pakistan, and Targeted Killing
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But some reporters have used the term imprecisely, conveying the idea that a fatwa is the equivalent of a death sentence, or indiscriminately, using the term to describe what many would argue are political statements by terrorist groups, rather than religious rulings.
Lsj.com - News
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Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller.
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It seems youare just angry because your commentsare imprecise andyour posts haveinaccurate statements and you simplydo not like it when I provide additional precise facts and invalidate your glittering genralizations with valid rebuttals.
Rangel Will Back Hillary
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Ireland were not without threat in attack, yet the final pass was often imprecise and their forays forward left holes at the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the government policies are expressed imprecisely, confusion results.
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A similar difficulty stems from the imprecise concept of a capital expenditure.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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That memorandum is in somewhat general and imprecise terms.
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Previous results pertaining to interlock centrality might be spurious or misleadingly imprecise.
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This system in the past has been plagued with technical difficulties that occasionally made the HeNe aiming beam diverge from the CO2 vaporising beam, rendering the system imprecise for microsurgery.
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Found good positions but crosses were often imprecise and finishing was ineffective.
Times, Sunday Times
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Statutory language is sufficiently imprecise to permit considerable latitude in interpretation by the courts.
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The microscopic quantum world is imprecise; it is the domain of Heisenberg uncertainty.
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Nice, our teachers told us, was vague, imprecise, woolly.
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That memorandum is in somewhat general and imprecise terms.
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An in-class semantic (referring to the meaning of words) or verbal paraphasia is a word usage that, although imprecise, remains understandable because the approximate word or phrase relates to some characteristic of the precise word (e.g., its basic function or class).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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As we noted earlier, the distinction between CIHD and other heart diseases is imprecise.
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But a few other hawk-eyed readers pointed out that the grammar I used in my column was actually imprecise and clumsy.
