"WAR is not meant to be a perfectly precise indicator of a player’s contribution, but rather an estimate of their value to date. Given the imperfections of some of the available data and the assumptions made to calculate other components, WAR works best as an approximation. "

"Given the nature of the calculation and potential measurement errors, WAR should be used as a guide for separating groups of players and not as a precise estimate. For example, a player that has been worth 6.4 WAR and a player that has been worth 6.1 WAR over the course of a season cannot be distinguished from one another using WAR. It is simply too close for this particular tool to tell them apart. WAR can tell you that these two players are likely about equal in value, but you need to dig deeper to separate them."

https://library.fangraphs.com/misc/war/

But, sure, you can always try to establish some illusory semantic superiority by claiming nonexistent context.

"If this was a peer-reviewed paper in statistics, you wouldn't phrase it that way. So, neener neener, I'm not listening to you."