inchoate

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

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

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

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2023

In this frenzied atmosphere, the inchoate ideas of Bush and Conant about international control made barely a ripple.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik