inchoative

Definition of inchoativenext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • Participants underwent an initial baseline assessment and were assigned individualized vagus nerve stimulation protocols designed by Pulsetto’s clinical team.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • Trump’s initial director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, resigned last month, citing her husband’s recent cancer diagnosis.
    Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • After a night that featured 38 foul calls and a gritty Connecticut team determined to make a statement in Atlanta, the Dream clinched a 91-74 win over the Sun in a back-and-forth matchup that started rough but ended on a high note in their first Commissioner’s Cup game.
    Micahya Costen, AJC.com, 3 June 2026
  • Haaland could make history as the first female Native American governor if she’s elected.
    Erin Cox, Washington Post, 3 June 2026
Adjective
  • Though Lauer’s career has taken twists and turns since, those were formative years.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
  • Riley regularly hosts customer dinners, helps recruit early employees and works alongside founders to shape go-to-market strategy during a company’s formative stages.
    TrueBridge Capital, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Regardless, there’s a clear symbolism to Clark empathizing and embracing a bloated externalization of his own inchoate fury until someone with an outside perspective disturbs his peace, and that fury breaks loose and devours him.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 29 May 2026
Adjective
  • It's been 13 years since that sequel, which shed nearly every major player from the original franchise's cast and crew and added fresh blood like Ashley Tisdale and Lindsay Lohan.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • There are other interesting twists to the original story that highlight different parts of the themes of crime, punishment, family and responsibility.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • Even incipient technologies like quantum computing rely on specialized fabrication and precision engineering.
    Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 13 May 2026
  • Their evident fondness for one another, glowing warmly alongside all their sniping and whispering and eye-rolling, allows all the nightmares in Big Mistakes to feel like a lark rather than an incipient calamity.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Still, the case is often credited as reining in Microsoft and allowing then-nascent firms like Google to flourish.
    Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 1 June 2026
  • Humanoid robots remain a nascent market.
    Katie Tarasov,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 1 June 2026
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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