inchoate

Example Sentences

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That purposely encompasses what lawyers call “inchoate” crimes.

From Los Angeles Times

Norm Pattis, a lawyer for Mr. Biggs, derided all of this at the time as “the most attenuated, inchoate crime imaginable.”

From New York Times

In a room together, physically or virtually, they operate like a kind of perpetual motion machine, volleying inchoate thoughts and hypotheses with no apparent loss of momentum.

From New York Times

In a beautiful recent consideration of Mescal’s performance as a young father in the grip of inchoate, inconsolable pain, my Times colleague Charles McNulty wrote that the actor “never makes ‘Aftersun’ about his brilliance.

From Los Angeles Times

The protest comes as the country gears up for the start of the 2024 presidential campaign, amid serious questions about whether a battered and inchoate opposition has the wherewithal to win over disenchanted voters.

From New York Times