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 the definition is so inchoate that decisions about whether something rates as fair use are typically done by judges on a case-by-case basis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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
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
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