half-formed
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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 that’s been crusted over by the steady gnawing of time.
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2024
These half-formed thoughts clutter slides, which attempt to portray a mind-numbing amount of information coherently.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023
Similarly, in “The Head,” the women’s family tells her to just ignore the half-formed thing in the toilet that calls her “mother.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022
Coll returned the crooked, half-formed blade to the furnace, where it lost its shape entirely.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
