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hand-wavey

How to use hand-wavey in a sentence. Live example sentences for hand-wavey pulled from indexed public discussions.

Editorial note

Just because the explanation is hand-wavey does not mean she is full of shit.

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Quick take

Just because the explanation is hand-wavey does not mean she is full of shit.

Example sentences

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Just because the explanation is hand-wavey does not mean she is full of shit.

2

It's completely legitimate to point out flaws, whether they're actual bugs, subjective annoyances or hand-wavey project-wide things.

3

There haven't been questions about how to do this in a more data-driven, less hand-wavey way.

4

People who have good social radar are often imprecise and hand-wavey in their explanations of it.

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They're pontificating about the only abstractions they understand, some hand-wavey idea of AI and then the sci-fi short stories of the imagined dangers.

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I am not opposed to all regulation, but I am opposed to regulations based on extremely hypothetical hand-wavey risks.

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Copyright law seems simpler: You own specific files, not abstract hand-wavey ideas.

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Gray's article is sufficiently hand-wavey and cherry-picky to not even bother with.

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Inaccurate or hand-wavey arguments work against that end.

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If people were really criticizing the hand-wavey descriptions, as you claim, they would be making different criticisms from what I have mostly seen here.

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It has nothing to do with hand-wavey openness, it's that they are the developers of the other browser that makes up a huge chunk of the mobile web.

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I ask for a non hand-wavey answer, if I get one.

Quote examples

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I admit "processing going on in the background" was a real hand-wavey way to phrase it, but I think you know what I mean.

2

I like the "Old Man's War" series about as much as I do Weber's and Ringo's books - they are interesting stories but the science is seriously hand-wavey.

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However, it does give us a concrete, non-hand-wavey algorithm which can reasonably be considered "AI, if we ignore resource constraints".

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And one way you can help achieve that, if you so desire, is to change the manner in which you criticize women and their "hand-wavey" attempts to express themselves.

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How do you use hand-wavey in a sentence?

Just because the explanation is hand-wavey does not mean she is full of shit.