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Adjective
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The permanent chair controls a $468,000 committee budget, the second-largest of any City Council committee, and holds a seat on the Chicago Plan Commission, which gives initial approval to major developments.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Oil prices rose again Thursday above $100 a barrel as initial optimism about a truce gave way to uncertainty.—
Mithil Aggarwal,
NBC news,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Ben Saraf, making his first start since March 25, added eight early points, and the Nets closed the quarter on a 10-0 run to take a 30-29 lead into the second.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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The Dilworth-South End border along the railroad back in 1988 was not the safest place; Thai Taste was robbed in its first six months of operations, and someone even came into the dining room and stole a customer’s purse during service.—
Timothy DePeugh,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The two bonded over Crane’s adoration of the 1930s fictional detective Nero Wolfe and the formative subject of their fathers.—
Annie Vainshtein,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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Polis, who was born in Boulder but spent his formative years in San Diego, is a diehard Colorado sports fan.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Vaccinating our faculty and staff is our first step toward keeping our schools open and safe and will be inceptive to reopening our economy.—
Margaret W. Long,
chicagotribune.com,
19 Nov. 2020
Adjective
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The mood is unsettled; the structure is amorphous and inchoate.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Miller structured the play differently, snapping back between realism and symbolism, as manifest in Jo Mielziner’s famous original set.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The original proposal included a provision that would have banned athletes from participating in sports after three positive tests.—
Brady Halbleib,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This focus on their past appeals to the story’s lowest hanging fruit, which is its sense of incipient tragedy, the foreclosure of the possibility for happiness.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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His incipient political ascent has been marred by tragedy—41 people died and more than 80 were injured in a stampede at a TVK rally in 2025.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Mar. 2026
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Many of today’s millennial TV and film creators grew up in the 1990s, when the nascent Cartoon Network began airing anime shows.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
7 Apr. 2026
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All of it is slowly becoming available for streaming and free download at the nonprofit online repository Internet Archive, including that nascent Nirvana show recording, with the audio from Jacobs' cassette recorder cleaned up.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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