How to Use inexact in a Sentence

inexact

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• The measurements were somewhat inexact, but they were close enough.
• To be sure, the 1964 parallels—like all parallels—are inexact.
  — Marc J. Selverstone / Made By History, TIME, 12 Aug. 2024
• Trump and others who seek to cast doubt on the data have taken advantage of the fact that measuring crime is a complex, inexact science, and not every data source is consistent.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Indeed, the maps have been long been viewed as inexact.
  — David W. Chen, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
• Farmers use a small kitchen scale to weigh the cotton, in an inexact process.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• But there’s much less inexact about a stopwatch, when placed against the context of a prospect’s high school film.
  — Eric Hansen, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2019
• My personal term for the inexact nature of the messy, fuzzy world was muzzy.
  — Charles Platt, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2023
• While polling is an inexact science, none of the three polls released Tuesday had Sessions in the lead.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 10 Mar. 2020
• The math, though, is a little more difficult and inexact.
  — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
• Projecting the future of teenagers is inexact and unpredictable, but the records of Gross and Tanous speak for themselves.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
• Exceptions vary by state and the language in laws can often be inexact.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 June 2024
• Like war itself, tracking the evolution of weapons is a messy and inexact business.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• High-tech tunnel detection is an inexact science, to say the least.
  — Arthur Herman, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2014
• While recruiting is an inexact science, the Elite 11 track record speaks for itself.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
• In other words, the Chargers probably couldn’t go wrong with any of them, which isn’t often the case in an exercise as fickle and inexact as the NFL draft.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2024
• That’s the beauty of the inexact science involved with scouting players.
  — Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2017
• The draft has always been as inexact as John Paxson’s reasons for keeping Gar Forman around.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
• And third, airbag deployments are an inexact proxy for crashes.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 4 May 2018
• Parallels between reactionary trends now and those of the thirties are inexact, of course, and can be untrue to the facts of both eras, at least in America.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• But ferreting those things out is an inexact science at best.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, 19 Nov. 2019
• And even an inexact forecast provides more insight than no forecast at all.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• Of course, the parallels between 1918 and today are inexact.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
• The number, of course, is inexact, as obviously no direct measure of all the billions of stars and other objects in the Milky Way could be taken.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2017
• With his play, Kuzma showed that projecting how a college player might translate to the NBA is an inexact science.
  — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 21 June 2018
• But concussion diagnosis is inexact, and in the case of hematomas, requires a CT scan, which is expensive, and often has a long queue.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 30 Mar. 2017
• Mapping the road there is inexact, but necessary — and everyone who’s honest hears the ticking clock.
  — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 July 2017
• The recruitment of top-level high school football players is an inexact science at best.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 7 June 2017
• With the general elections about five months off, predicting the allottment of seats is an inexact science at best.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 3 June 2018
• But Vox Media is not a public company, and valuing its stock is an inexact science.
  — Sydney Ember, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2016
• Efforts to understand human weather—to show, for example, that children who are abused bear the mark of that abuse as adults—are predictably inexact.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024