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Adjective
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The Patriots had held possession in the overtime period since the initial draw control, but the tenacious Notre Dame Academy defense was plugging gaps exceptionally well.—
Jack Murray,
Boston Herald,
11 June 2026 -
But initial attempts to send her to Tahiti, a French dependency, about 1,350 miles — or a 30-hour sea journey — from Pitcairn, were rejected by French Polynesian authorities.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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One of the game’s best players just recorded his first goal in the World Cup!—
NBC News,
NBC news,
17 June 2026
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Kingsley’s first job as an actor was performing Shakespeare in schools.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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Pandemic-era school disruption, the rise of social media, and heightened political tension have all collided during their formative years—leaving many struggling with focus, stress, and mental health challenges.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 Dec. 2025
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Angel-Martinez’s defense attorney, Randall Barnum, talked about the formative years before the age of 21 and said that in juvenile correction, Angel-Martinez has been involved in the honor system and participated in the education process.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
11 Dec. 2025
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Yet, even these inchoate moments deepen the music’s sense of honest confusion.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
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These are the inchoate and unarticulated aspects of the relationship an author offers to us through a book, the parts of the reading experience that provide a kind of psychological mooring for a reader.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Fountain explains how the political times of the original Rasputin increasingly mirror our own and reads from Rasputin Swims the Potomac.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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As soon as that original article with my collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier was published in the summer of 2012, immediately there were many labs that started using it and testing it for gene editing in different systems.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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Even incipient technologies like quantum computing rely on specialized fabrication and precision engineering.—
Eric Kutcher,
Fortune,
13 May 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
Adjective
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The Gulf’s private credit market remains at a nascent stage of development, relative to global peers, but a confluence of structural forces is accelerating its growth.—
Melissa Hancock,
Fortune,
16 June 2026
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His reflexive suspicion of causes left him more dismayed than energized by the nascent conflict.—
John Swansburg,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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Lurking beneath the distribution problem is a more fundamental challenge to the private equity value proposition.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
10 June 2026
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The system has been engineered to confine pure water within microscopic channels, thereby altering the liquid’s fundamental behavior.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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