inchoate
Example Sentences
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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
And if this is, in fact, the call, then what it might look like to answer it is no longer inchoate or mysterious.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
But the definition is so inchoate that decisions about whether something rates as fair use are typically done by judges on a case-by-case basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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
Richard paused, pleased to feel the strangely inchoate intimacy that came with talking about himself, something he rarely did.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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