inarticulate
noun
: any of a class (Inarticulata) of brachiopods lacking a hinge connecting the two shell valves
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Our role is not to answer but to question, and to let our questioning run headlong, reckless, into the inarticulate.
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Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
To understand the gap between how Nitram saw himself versus how others perceived the inarticulate, angry young man, Kurzel assigned Jones tasks: film himself with a video camera, doodle in a diary.
—New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
In Heaney, the inarticulate, the mumblers, the provincial found a powerful well source of description to draw from.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
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Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
To understand the gap between how Nitram saw himself versus how others perceived the inarticulate, angry young man, Kurzel assigned Jones tasks: film himself with a video camera, doodle in a diary.
—New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
In Heaney, the inarticulate, the mumblers, the provincial found a powerful well source of description to draw from.
—Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
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“Inarticulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inarticulate. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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