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Adjective
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His initial coping mechanism was to throw his water bottle in frustration.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025 -
The items collect dust, and the space is rarely revisited after the initial setup until the holidays come around.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There to see Lajo off, Hamida meets her brother for the first time since her own abduction.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The appearance marked the first time Caitlyn has appeared on the Hulu reality series, which premiered in 2022 after Keeping Up with the Kardashians concluded.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Yarra Junction boomerang, unusual in its size and shape, was deeply integrated into the original societies of Australia, but this one, specifically, came after colonization, thereby bringing up another formative chapter in the country’s history.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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Helen wants him for an off-the-books quest to find a possibly mythical object called the Seven Five Two, and an even more off-the-books quest to find answers about a formative childhood trauma involving the Talamasca.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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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Jeremy Allen White, who always seems to do inchoate torment so well, makes a fine Springsteen.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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Although only five minutes in length, The Magic Lantern gives us a momentary glimpse of the magic of cinema as a burgeoning medium and the inchoate experimentation that accompanied its first decades as a studio invention.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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While the show has since been rebooted to include the original cast's spouses and children, Polizzi said a lot of people refuse to see her as anything other than an early 2000s-era party girl.—
Hadley Hitson,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Oct. 2025
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The series sticks with the timeline of Muschietti's movies rather than King's book, meaning the original Losers Club encounter with It takes place in 1989 rather than 1958, and the final battle in 2016 rather than 1985.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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To her credit, Shannon shakes off the incipient paranoia and goes hard into the giggles at anything and everyone at the table.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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On the macro front, there’s no doubt that the jobs report turned up the level of concern about the economy’s growth pace by a few clicks, while putting some pressure on the not-insignificant camp of economic handicappers who have been calling for an incipient reacceleration in U.S. growth.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
6 Sep. 2025
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For Netflix, which is still more nascent in the space than its traditional competitors, the KPop Demon Hunter deals mark a major expansion.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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Not all his family returned with him, worried that the nascent ceasefire may not hold.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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