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

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik