inchoative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • Phishing Email Detection And Response Phishing remains the most common initial attack vector.
    Karan Alang, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Scientists defined daytime napping as sleeping between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. After the initial study, researchers kept tabs on the participants for eight years and discovered that 5,189 (6.0%) of them died during that time period.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • News of its foray into prediction markets has helped its stock price gain more than 100% in the first half of 2025.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 29 June 2025
  • This is not the first time the council has approved increasing ticket prices.
    Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • Once a mainstay on the NASCAR Cup schedule, Bowman Gray hosted races in the league’s formative years, from 1958 to 1971.
    Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • In those formative years spent as a youngster in Hawaii, surfing had become a big part of his life and moving to Texas was admittedly a bit of a letdown.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 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
  • Because these are open-box deals, the items have been taken out of their original packaging and could arrive with minor scratches—but that won’t stop us from accepting the massive discount.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 June 2025
  • The building is listed at $2.49 million, a drop from its original price of $2.9 million.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Consequently, embracing innovation and technology to contain incipient fires quickly is critical.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Since the shale boom, oil prices and the U.S. dollar have risen in tandem, suggesting an incipient case of Dutch disease in the United States.
    Michael L. Ross, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • With its spinoff from NBCUniversal looming (and with it a split from NBC News), MSNBC continues to staff up its nascent news division.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
  • The brand describes Cyrus as the perfect model for the nascent fragrance; someone who’s both free-spirited and versatile.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Character is fundamental to leadership; without it, leadership is a position without moral conviction.
    John Baldoni, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • The Montana Supreme Court said the state constitution gives minors the same fundamental rights as adults.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 4 July 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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