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inchoate

[in-koh-it, -ayt, in-koh-ayt] / ɪnˈkoʊ ɪt, -eɪt, ˈɪn koʊˌeɪt /


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Brian Schaer, 43, a limestone miner from southern Iowa, sums up the inchoate resentment: “It’s frustrating when you don’t get your stuff going.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

So much of your book is about what I think of as inchoate or invisible institutions.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2025

Instead, the emails became a symbol of a powerful but inchoate sense, magnified by disproportionate press attention, that she was devious and deceptive.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

He remains an inchoate, irredeemable, iconic mess of humanity developmentally stuck between diapers and nursery school.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023

To Lawrence, however, the assignment seemed both inchoate and potentially overwhelming.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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