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

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

The inchoate feeling that Pride isn’t as provocative as it once was probably set in as soon as they swept up the glass from Stonewall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023

She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in secondary school, and always thought the American twang inchoate; she should not have cowered and shrunk, but she did.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie