inchoate

Example Sentences

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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

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

Essays in the generally fine catalog are good at articulating the period’s quickly changing history, as the inchoate forces that would coalesce into Pop, Minimal, Conceptual and other art movements began to gather.

From Los Angeles Times

Petrifying sights and sounds haunt her nights and inchoate shadows hover around her.

From New York Times

The throne is now surrounded not by a host of attendants but by angels sporting striped wings starred in red, white and blue, inchoate, monstrous beings and fighter jets.

From New York Times