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

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

He remains an inchoate, irredeemable, iconic mess of humanity developmentally stuck between diapers and nursery school.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 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