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 although his methodology was questioned, he opened the door to a generation of social scientists for the analysis of often subjective and inchoate aspects of human emotion and behavior.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2024

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

Little Man Theory remains mere theory, to be sure, possibly no more than an inchoate proto-theory, because it is yet hypothetical, speculative and assumptive.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

But even more than that, I found in hip-hop the sound of my generation talking to itself, working through the fears and anxieties and inchoate dreams—of wealth or power or revolution or success—we all shared.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore