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
He remains an inchoate, irredeemable, iconic mess of humanity developmentally stuck between diapers and nursery school.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 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
Richard paused, pleased to feel the strangely inchoate intimacy that came with talking about himself, something he rarely did.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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