inchoate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Davis, to her credit, doesn’t sugarcoat just how difficult it can be, especially for those new to its often inchoate norms.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

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

All over the inchoate solar system, the same was happening.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson