inchoate

Example Sentences

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And if this is, in fact, the call, then what it might look like to answer it is no longer inchoate or mysterious.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

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

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

But even more than that, I found in hip-hop the sound of my generation talking to itself, working through the fears and anxieties and inchoate dreams—of wealth or power or revolution or success—we all shared.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore