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Recent Examples of inarticulate From this, and similarly strong but inarticulate reactions, Haidt concluded that the students had arrived at their judgments impulsively. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 Fans of high culture should welcome vulgarization in a pinch, the same way that devout Sunday school teachers welcome the untutored, inarticulate, undirected faith of a child. Michelle Weber, Longreads, 11 Dec. 2024 In its least manageable moments, early motherhood must feel like an unpaid job with no breaks, an inarticulate boss and working conditions designed to strip all that’s civil from one’s sense of self. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024 An inarticulate protagonist—a protagonist who isn’t much given to verbally analyzing his own experience—seemed to provide an opportunity to approach things another way, indirectly or suggestively. Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inarticulate
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Adjective
  • To remind us that behind every mute button is a person.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Please check back again soon for the recorded video. LIVE VIDEO TO BEGIN AFTER AD Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Use up and down arrows to change volume, and spacebar or enter to toggle mute.
    Tyler Shane, Wired News, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • In helicopter video taken by Air Maui Helicopter Tours in Lahaina and posted online the people aboard are largely speechless.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Because his work, as is often the case, leaves us almost speechless.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2023

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“Inarticulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inarticulate. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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