How to Use inexact in a Sentence

inexact

adjective
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  • The measurements were somewhat inexact, but they were close enough.
  • 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 | Pgattis@al.com, al, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The math, though, is a little more difficult and inexact.
    — Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • Like war itself, tracking the evolution of weapons is a messy and inexact business.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • The University of Alabama at Birmingham had only played two games at their new home and game costs were still inexact.
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 23 Jan. 2022
  • The comparison is inexact, though, because the stories of Curtis and Cobain have a finality that Richey’s lacks.
    — Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • This makes drawing and writing with the candy writers cumbersome and inexact.
    — Mabel Wong, Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The inexact science of brain injuries and concussion management forced him to assess his future as a ski racer.
    — Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
  • These figures are inexact because income also depends on how much one flies.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024

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