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‘A picture can be inaccurate.’

[⟨det picture.n⟩ inaccurate.a]

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In Wikipedia:

However, all reconstructions are tentative; for example, scholars have shown that trying to reconstruct modern Cantonese from the rimes of modern Cantopop would give a very inaccurate picture of the language.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Or perhaps (to be dreaded even more), the Scriptures were guilty of painting an inaccurate picture of God?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The resulting’ ’ therapeutic alliance’ ’ may have enhanced the efficacy of these drugs and given an inaccurate picture of their effectiveness in a managed care environment where antidepressants are often delivered in conjunction with infrequent visits to a physician or mental health professional.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Is it possible that they present an inaccurate picture because of who is willing to take time and answer them.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The federal government’s badly outdated method of measuring poverty provides an inaccurate picture.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

According to one tunnel operator, who spoke to the Weekly on condition of anonymity, this picture is totally inaccurate.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

He painted an absurdly inaccurate picture of conditions in Cuba, in an attempt to vilify our country and create a pretext for retaining his increasingly denigrated policy, and said “The operative word in our future dealings with Cuba is not stability.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The U.S. government’s method, established in 1964, is badly outdated and leads to an inaccurate picture of who is, and is not, poor in America.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Young suggested that while a wide disparity exists in the performance of housing markets across the country, there is a tendency to generalize real estate, often resulting in an inaccurate picture.
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In the British National Corpus:

John Major, speaking before he flew back to London, dismissed that as an inaccurate picture of Britain.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The picture the writer paints of all gays as immoral is likely inaccurate and surely comes from a place of prejudice and dated thinking.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

But to ignore the benefits of animal agriculture is to paint an inaccurate picture and to do a disservice to educating your average consumer.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The answer is simple: First of all, the whole concept of blood sacrifice paints an inaccurate, disrespectful picture of our Father in Heaven.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

According to one tunnel operator, who spoke to the Weekly on condition of anonymity, this picture is totally inaccurate.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the case of the headline quoted above, I have to say that succinct didn’t work, and the picture painted was absurdly inaccurate.
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In Wikipedia:

In the course of time, however, these pictures were removed from their original locations, so that the interior view of churches as they appear today, with their unadorned pillars, in fact presents an inaccurate picture.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Now the reason that this difference is interesting is just about everyone who is asking the questions (and there seem to be a lot of them, especially these last couple of weeks!), is handicapped by several issues, from incorrect assumptions about what works for them today to inaccurate picture of what they need to do to fix the problems to inappropriate plans for the scope of the work to plan.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’m realizing that right now I write because people are on this journey with me, and if that really is true, then it wouldn’t really be fair to paint an inaccurate picture for them by talking about things that don’t matter.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Nick (261), you said, “…[deficiencies] of neoclassical microeconomics – that depends on its wildly inaccurate picture of human decision – making, its fixation on equilibrium phenomena, and its cornucopian assumptions about natural resources…
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Queried on 2013-05-21.