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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An inchoate plot then took shape in the form of the film’s second lead character.
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2022
Strong delicately teases out her characters’ emotional stasis, the end of one major phase and the inchoate beginnings of another.
—Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
Families gradually leave; eventually, the nation itself becomes increasingly inchoate, legally and spiritually rooted to a shoreline that is disappearing under rising tides.
—Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
The rage of men whose grievances are inchoate and inexhaustible found expression in a 58-year-old movie star’s humiliation of his 36-year-old former wife.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
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Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2022
Strong delicately teases out her characters’ emotional stasis, the end of one major phase and the inchoate beginnings of another.
—Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
Families gradually leave; eventually, the nation itself becomes increasingly inchoate, legally and spiritually rooted to a shoreline that is disappearing under rising tides.
—Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
The rage of men whose grievances are inchoate and inexhaustible found expression in a 58-year-old movie star’s humiliation of his 36-year-old former wife.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
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