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• Breaking news may contain incomplete information, factual errors, or poor editing because of a rush to publication.From the entry breaking news
• Find words to fill the gaps in an incomplete sentence.From the entry gap
• The post mortem timeline is incomplete.From the entry post mortem
• Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.From the entry paradigm
• This reasoning is far more justifiable than the last, but it is still incomplete.2025 November 29, Jane Migliara Brigham, “The Egg Prime Directive is Bullshit”, in The Needle. From the entry egg prime directive
• For everyone else, a self-diagnosis of depression is error prone and may provide a seriously incomplete picture.2021, Jonathan Rottenberg, Depression: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 25. From the entry self-diagnosis
• A short ground and pound and an incomplete leads to a big conversion on the ground.2015, Bryan Campbell, 40 oz. of Freedom, →ISBN. From the entry ground and pound
• Dross is related with the incomplete expulsion of the melt from the bottom of the kerf.2008, Narendra B. Dahotre, Sandip Harimkar, Laser Fabrication and Machining of Materials, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry dross
• The Passover Seders that Jews celebrated on the weekend would have been incomplete without the afikomen.2008 April 22, Clyde Haberman, “The Unsavory Is No Rarity at City Hall”, in New York Times. From the entry afikomen
• Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported.2002, James Gleick, What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier. From the entry Microspeak
• When the feedback increases further, longitudinal mode hopping or incomplete multimodes appear.1985, Semiconductors and Semimetals, page 80. From the entry multimode
• Nuclear division is succeeded by incomplete cytokinesis so that daughter cells are joined and develop syncytially.1982, Robinson & Halton, “Fine structural observations on spermatogenesis in Corrigia vitta (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae)”, in Z.…. From the entry syncytially
• The scleroid is a complete sphere; choroid and retina are incomplete externally.1978, Alfred Sherwood Romer, Thomas Sturges Parsons, The Vertebrate Body. From the entry scleroid
• 'Men' and 'women' are separate and incomplete identities forced to relate in prescribed patterns.1971, Jude, “Destruction of "Sexual Duality"”, in Body Politic, number 1, page 3. From the entry relate
• Mature adults who seek to perpetrate this myth reveal themselves as incomplete and neurotic personalities.1947, Valentine Davies, chapter 10, in Miracle on 34th Street, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 63. From the entry Kris Kringle
• But simply turning off iCloud backups was an incomplete solution.2022 November 2, Brian X. Chen, “Personal Tech Has Changed. So Must Our Coverage of It.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the…. From the entry macro
• All this means that quantum-proofing the internet is shaping up to be an expensive, protracted and probably incomplete job.2019 October 20, “Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group…. From the entry quantum-proof
• All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry word salad
• The census remained incomplete, due in some cases to lack of private transportation or the nonaccompaniment of a military government representative.2017, Mansour Nasasra, The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance. From the entry nonaccompaniment
• Based on incomplete data, estimators for bandable and sparse covariance matrices are proposed and their theoretical and numerical properties are investigated.2016, T. Tony Cai, Anru Zhang, “Minimax Rate-optimal Estimation of High-dimensional Covariance Matrices with Incomplete Data”, in arXiv. From the entry bandable
• For instance, a Nandamuri Balakrishna film is incomplete without punch dialogues – those with attitude, catchy slogans, rhymes and alliterations.2016 March 2, Suhas Yellapantula, “Punch patakas for men only”, in The New Indian Express, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Express Publications…. From the entry punch dialogue
• On the other hand, verbs indicate incomplete sayables – predicates – that are related to actions and undergoing of actions.2015, Ana María Mora-Marquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, page 113. From the entry sayable
• Both the dorsal and subnarial processes are incomplete.2015 July 9, “Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from…. From the entry subnarial
• I've got a station chief who's as mad as a fish, an incomplete briefing, and a gambling-obsessed billionaire to out-bluff.2007, Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue. From the entry mad as a fish
• After incomplete resection of soft tissue sarcomas, resection of local tissue should be performed, even if excisable tissue margins appear narrow.2007 February, Bacon NJ, Dernell WS, Ehrhart N, Powers BE, Withrow SJ, “Evaluation of primary re-excision after recent inadequate…. From the entry excisable
• Second, incomplete coding is especially problematic for chronic conditions.2005, Daniel J. Friedman, Edward L. Hunter, R. Gibson Parrish, Health Statistics, →ISBN. From the entry undercode
• Pfau by repeated crystallisation from chloroform, in which chloroatranorin was sparingly soluble, was laborious and incomplete over a number of stages.1963, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, volume 40, page 8. From the entry chloroatranorin
• Little and few are also incomplete negatives; note the frequent collocation with no: there is little or no danger.1917, Otto Jespersen, Negation in English and Other Languages, Copenhagen: A.F. Høst, page 39. From the entry collocation
• It is obviously the ventral ray with incomplete sub-divisions.1914 July, Clayton Lane, “Bursate nematodes from the Indian elephant”, in Indian Journal of Medical Research, volume 2, number 1, page 395. From the entry thereafter
• Both oversimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are incomplete) and undersimplification (e.g., explanatory variables are redundant) of reality can lead to trustless explanation and unfaithful prediction.2016 January 23, “Spatial Autocorrelation Approaches to Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry undersimplification
• (b) The incomplete minor fissure was divided by using an endocutter to complete the right middle lobe lobectomy via the subxyphoid single-port approach.2015 March 2, Chia-Chuan Liu et al., “Subxyphoid single-incision thoracoscopic pulmonary metastasectomy”, in Thoracic Cancer, volume 6, →DOI. From the entry endocutter
• While you will have to make immediate decisions and take actions, the crisis fact pattern will most likely be incomplete and will contain wrong information.2014, Bruce T. Blythe, Blindsided: A Manager's Guide to Crisis Leadership, →ISBN. From the entry fact pattern
• They are in some sense incomplete.2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012. From the entry concept
• We show that if psychological preferences are incomplete then revealed preferences can be intransitive without exposing agents to manipulations or violating outcome rationality.2005, Michael Mandler (February 2005), "Incomplete preferences and rational intransitivity of choice", Games and Economic Behavior…. From the entry revealed preference
• A number of species, however, have a pseudotail consisting of a few postcloacal vertebrae, but annulation is incomplete and a terminal shield is consistently present.2002, Jay M. Savage, The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry pseudotail
• By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification.1991, Dorothy Matilda Figueira, Translating the Orient, page 8. From the entry emplot

Meaning of incomplete

1. adjective Not complete; not finished.
2. adjective Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.
3. noun A multipart file posted to a Usenet newsgroup that is incomplete and thus unusable.

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Questions about incomplete in a sentence

How do you use incomplete in a sentence?

Incomplete is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Stefania handed in her writing incomplete.”

What is a short sentence with incomplete?

“an incomplete jigsaw puzzle”

What does incomplete mean?

Incomplete means not complete; not finished.