half-formed
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The concepts feel half-formed at best, disconnected from Joan/Jo’s story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
He also told Ball he may go back into the recording studio to work on "some things that are half-formed or were never finished".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024
Overall, this is a novel probably best enjoyed by people with no experience of the podcast, or a complete experience of it; as the book itself suggests, half-formed remnants of memory are trouble.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
She was still talking when Dany finally fell to sleep, to dream queer, half-formed dreams of smoke and fire.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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