inchoative

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • For Russia, this began soon after its initial invasion failed to seize control of Kyiv and Ukraine’s government.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Huerta, 58, had been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles since Friday and made his initial appearance in federal court Monday afternoon.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Five years after the first trial in 1342, Hugh Colne was convicted of being one of the men to stab Forde in the stomach and sentenced to the notorious Newgate Prison.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 June 2025
  • Adding to the shock factor of this particular comeback was how badly Indiana handled the ball in the first half.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jelly, whose real name is Jason Deford, was born in Nashville and spent his formative years there.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 3 June 2025
  • His style philosophy today remains thoroughly shaped by these formative years., representing the spiritual traditions of the Japanese people while simultaneously interpreting Western culture.
    Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Many of Piker’s viewers come to him with inchoate opinions.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Running deep beneath all these threads seemed to be an inchoate feeling that simply to show evil was to become its apprentice.
    Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The original National Theatre run played from Nov. 21, 2024, through Jan. 25, 2025, in the Lyttelton Theatre before being released to cinemas worldwide through National Theatre Live.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 June 2025
  • During the pandemic-era streaming boom, Netflix, along with other global streamers, invested heavily in original African content in a bid to boost subscriber numbers and touted the continent, with its low streaming penetration rates and large, young population, as a future growth market.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Another way in which partisanship has brought us to this incipient defeat of the constitutional order is that the Congress has been rendered all but incompetent by faction.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 30 May 2025
  • The conversation came at a moment of incipient crises for Trump’s second term.
    Sam Jacobs, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • But a holistic change to organization, training, tactics and operational execution is in the nascent stages.
    Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • This creates a fundamental mismatch between the investment horizons of businesses and the timelines on which the industries of the future depend.
    Mary Johnstone-Louis, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Beyond its role in defining styles, the exhibition raised fundamental questions about the relationship between art and industry, the function of ornament, and the need to connect design with social demands.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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