An inexact quotation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Some critics have dismissed the method as inexact. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2006] Reference
One can't be inexact with the government's red tape. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
Nothing could be more inexact than these statements. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
It turns out this is something of an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Text: Forever Famous] Reference
An inexact answer, but it came and it came in stages. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2005] Reference
But it's an inexact science, as I describe it to you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2008] Reference
TODD: But earthquake warnings are still an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2005] Reference
So it's still an inexact science about where we go from here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 16, 2009] Reference
As the sentence stands in his letter, it is strangely inexact. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
But to say that it is an inexact science is an understatement. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2000] Reference
HARRIS: You know, earthquake warnings are still an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2005] Reference
The real problem, Feuer says, is that testing is an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [In New York, A Critical Test Gets An 'F'] Reference
So it's an inexact science, but the malpractice forces us to be inexact. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009] Reference
A collation, incomplete and inexact, of the two texts is given by T. F. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
Evil is only an inexact description of a lesser good, or good in the making. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive] Reference
It would be inexact to affirm that the philosophy of Vico dominated the Risorgimento. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
But if 2005 tells us anything, it's that forecasting hurricanes is an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006] Reference
While evaluating HMOs is still an inexact exercise, these ratings provide a good start. From Wordnik.com. [Does Your Hmo Stack Up?] Reference
PILGRIM: Oh, that's the great question, because it's a very inexact science, obviously. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009] Reference
The quotation is from a despatch by Lyons of Dec. 6, 1861; but this is inexact language. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
These drawings are rude, and inexact, and the resemblance to extinct animals rather fanciful. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
And what this all brings to light is that, in the intelligence world, it's an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2003] Reference
After deep consideration he pronounces this experiment to be inexact, and the result ill-founded. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Estimating the economic impact of events like the Olympics or a convention is notoriously inexact. From Wordnik.com. [Playing It Safe] Reference
If results show elevated levels, get a confirmation test because even the blood-lead tests are inexact. From Wordnik.com. [Is Your Home Safe? Here's How To Check] Reference
This subtracting of stone — inexact handshakes — the impression of a broken cheekbone on a woman's face. From Wordnik.com. [Probability] Reference
Of course, assessing basketball talent is an inexact science and once in a while that stratagem will backfire. From Wordnik.com. [Ping-Pong Injustice] Reference
For 1990, the Census Bureau estimates (and this, too, is inexact) that it missed 1.8 percent of the population. From Wordnik.com. [Politics And The Census] Reference
Brewers, unlike vintners, release their beverages when they're ready to drink, and aging is an inexact science. From Wordnik.com. [Beer By the Year] Reference
So "quirky" may be a clinically useless term (Levine prefers the equally inexact "eccentric"), but that's the point. From Wordnik.com. [Why Don't We Call Them Quirky?] Reference
Pain control during terminal illness is still inexact at best, causing both the dying and their families untold suffering. From Wordnik.com. [The Stage Of Grief No One Admits To: Relief] Reference
He is "very bombastic, very inexact, and strangely independent in the current of his thoughts and in the arrangement of his words.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
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