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Noun
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At the manufacturing stage, inaccuracy in demand intelligence and supply forecasting contributes significantly to food waste.—
Guy Yehiav,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025 -
The documentary contained many inaccuracies, incorrect juxtapositions of timelines, and misstatements and omissions of fact — perhaps deliberate to capture their ‘truth,’ perhaps due to simple error.—
Claudia Rosenbaum,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Our goal isn’t complete accuracy but a reasonable approximation.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2025
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Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla, but are not precisely defined in the company’s shareholder communications.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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So much of the film turns on such evocative inexactitude, on our ability to wonder (and wander) about the image.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2021
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Bruno was fed up with berating his cooks for all their mistakes and inexactitudes, not to mention the grumbling.—
Jonathan Kauffman,
SFChronicle.com,
22 June 2018
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“Impreciseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impreciseness. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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