rough edges

plural noun

: things that need to be improved or finished

The project still has a few rough edges.

Examples of rough edges in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Most documentaries about legendary stars would sand off its subject’s rough edges and try to present the most hagiography-friendly version imaginable. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024 But the device's performance, and especially the relative immaturity of the Linux Arm software ecosystem, meant that there were lots of incompatibilities and rough edges. —

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2024 The social world, which is embedded in the natural environment, is messy and disorderly, and so imposing order through classification and measurement requires shaving off or tucking in many rough edges. —

Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021 Some rough edges in the third movement aside, that section was richly blended and sonorous on Thursday — especially its saturnine choir of Wagner tubas, led nobly by Daniel Gingrich. —

Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for rough edges

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