How to Use inaccurate in a Sentence

inaccurate

adjective
Definition of inaccuratenext
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  • Biden asked for the public to stop posting inaccurate information.
    — Kate Kealey, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
  • Take your inaccurate negativity off my page and try being happy.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
  • The vote totals were right but the percentages were inaccurate because of a formula error in our tracking spreadsheet.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 22 May 2024
  • Images or videos can be not only inaccurate, but also taken out of context or mischaracterized.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • Some have been known to provide inaccurate or misleading information.
    — Marissa Parra, NBC News, 30 Apr. 2024
  • But Biden’s dismissal of the Democrats’ doubts as a Beltway phenomenon is self-serving and inaccurate.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 18 July 2024
  • The news organizations asked what was inaccurate, but the company wouldn’t elaborate.
    — Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2024
  • The sheriff also alleged that state inspectors misread data, leading to inaccurate conclusions about whether jail staff are making safety rounds required by law.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 18 May 2024
  • That was enough for the court to hold that a private company did not have to abide by federal law on the basis of its owners’ scientifically inaccurate religious belief.
    — Jill Filipovic, TIME, 20 May 2024
  • The fact that the school claims to be nonsectarian does not give it the right to be inaccurate.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In a statement to CNN, Jones said the details of the conversation in the claim were inaccurate.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In a statement to Bloomberg, TikTok said the figure is inaccurate.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The way that that testing was presented to the jury was inaccurate.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Brock Purdy couldn’t grip the ball in the rain and was unusually inaccurate.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Lost or damaged goods and inaccurate records also play a part.
    — Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Tweets with hateful and inaccurate content have spiked since Musk’s takeover, researchers claimed to Bloomberg last week.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The company employs thousands of workers in the US, and its claims are inaccurate, in my opinion.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Worse, the statute authorizes Ms. James to bring a civil-fraud suit for inaccurate statements discovered in the process.
    — Philip Hamburger, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Moreno said the posts are inaccurate and misconstrue the nature of the urban planning framework.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Though the numbers were not great and a number of footballs were inaccurate, Watson seemed to be in complete control of himself and the offense.
    — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Peters was a senior member of Feuer’s team when the DWP rolled out a new system that sent inaccurate bills to hundreds of thousands of customers.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Your right to correct inaccurate info is codified in all of these states as well, except for Utah.
    — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
  • But Mayor Samantha Kaag said that number was inaccurate and two had been killed.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • That sounds a lot like a shinier version of a polygraph, which is pretty widely understood to be inaccurate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Throughout his three campaigns since 2016, Trump has spread inaccurate statements on a wide range of issues.
    — Azi Paybarah, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • Deters claims the paperwork Massie filed to run for office is inaccurate and should be voided.
    — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Charlie Adelson took the stand in his own defense and told the jury the prosecution's theory of the case was inaccurate.
    — Alison Lynn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The unusual move comes two days after WMC stood by the claims the ads made, despite the victim at the center of the case saying the broadcasts retraumatized her and were inaccurate.
    — Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Beiers said that was inaccurate; the system was two-way, with the judge, court staff and witnesses able to view a screen showing activities in the nearby public room.
    — Tom Olsen, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2024
  • After news of the lawsuit broke, Leakes posted a video on Instagram saying that the story was inaccurate.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023

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