Friedrich August von Hayek

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Austrian Economist

Michel Foucault

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.

French Historian

Kevin Hassett

The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.

American Economist

Daniel Keys Moran

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

American Writer

John Piper

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

American Clergyman

Imprecise suggests a lack of detail that prevents exact understanding.

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In science, imprecise indicates data or results lack strict accuracy.

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Using 'imprecise' can imply criticism; choose it when you need gentle criticism.

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 We've got to make ourselves a little more inefficient, and by doing so, we are creating a more imprecise social search engine. And you're creating that randomness, that luck that is going to cause you to widen your travels, through your social universe.

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 Astronomers needed to calculate Ceres's orbit. This would let them predict where it was going to be in the vast night sky on any given night. But the calculations were grueling and the results imprecise. Many astronomers searched for Ceres,

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 that would be even taller and stronger it would also have no central support system to hold it up during construction even worse the domes base was an imprecise octagon with no true center but Brunelleschi had that covered there

Imprecise

Not exact or accurate.

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