inchoate
Example Sentences
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Nice work, because this is the kind of inchoate smear that is impossible to defend against.
From Washington Post
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
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