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

All of which feels fair, especially since Rogan is the target of Johnson’s inchoate ire.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

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

Eventually they will transmute into something far more inchoate as her life unravels, and self-doubt begins to permeate her conviction that being a doctor is all that matters.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Richard paused, pleased to feel the strangely inchoate intimacy that came with talking about himself, something he rarely did.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie