as in nascent
beginning to come into existence
inchoate feelings of affection for a man whom she had, up till now, thought of as only a friend
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Recent Examples of inchoate
Woodford himself was quite explicit that his intervention was intended merely to formalize the existing consensus— to backfill a consistent theory behind an inchoate set of practices that had evolved through trial and error.
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Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
There are two teenage boys in the film, Haruki (Waku Kawaguchi) and Keita (Kiyora Fuiwara), whose inchoate erotic feelings for one another, a love that can still barely say its name in provincial Japan, forms a subplot here.
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Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
In the greater public, a dangerous, inchoate rage directed at Barack Obama persists alongside the widespread affection for him.
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Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
The mood is unsettled; the structure is amorphous and inchoate.
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Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
There are two teenage boys in the film, Haruki (Waku Kawaguchi) and Keita (Kiyora Fuiwara), whose inchoate erotic feelings for one another, a love that can still barely say its name in provincial Japan, forms a subplot here.
—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
In the greater public, a dangerous, inchoate rage directed at Barack Obama persists alongside the widespread affection for him.
—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
The mood is unsettled; the structure is amorphous and inchoate.
—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for inchoate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoate
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But the company is poised to play a leading role in the nascent Earth-return field, thanks to its launch dominance and vertical integration.
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Consumer credit was nascent, the 401(k) had barely existed for two years and the financial products that define today's balance sheet, including HELOCs, student loans and layered auto financing, were either unavailable or uncommon at that income tier.
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Since its initial meeting of 27 college baseball coaches in June 1945, Association members have broadened to include NCAA Division I, II, and III, NAIA, NJCAA, Pacific Association Division, High School, Youth and Travel.
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Balogun matched Landon Donovan in 2010 for the second-most goals by an American in a World Cup, behind only Bert Patenaude's four in the initial tournament in 1930.
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Even incipient technologies like quantum computing rely on specialized fabrication and precision engineering.
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Their evident fondness for one another, glowing warmly alongside all their sniping and whispering and eye-rolling, allows all the nightmares in Big Mistakes to feel like a lark rather than an incipient calamity.
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Kimpton also always gets a guide on the first day of a trip to show her the sights.
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That came in the spring of 2025, about 11 months after his dad had been sacked as coach, when Pochettino, the new manager, gave the younger Berhalter his first national team call-up.
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“Inchoate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoate. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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