inchoate
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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
Calling it blood money, he uses it only to fund his inchoate plan to crush the Squid Game.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 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
He mumbles a few inchoate phrases to someone who is not there.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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