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Adjective
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Arsenal’s flanks were regularly targeted despite Jeglertz admitting the initial game plan was to sear through Arsenal’s middle.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025 -
For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Immediately after the cease-fire takes effect, Israel will let 400 aid trucks enter Gaza everyday for the first five days, and gradually increase that number, a senior Palestinian official told the BBC.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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The program gives team members the chance to experience different roles, properties, and cultures first-hand, building skills and strengthening connections across the region, and—in the process—strengthening the company’s cross-cultural bonds.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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One section traces Fletcher's formative years and early experimentations; another touches on her current artistic explorations.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
2 Oct. 2025
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So anyway, incredibly formative time and a very, very competitive company.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
1 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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The passions and dreams that drove the movement can seem inchoate, naïve, and contradictory.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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Other milestones in the proposal Musk would need to meet in order to receive his reward include the deployment of autonomous taxis and humanoid robots, an inchoate industry Tesla is heavily investing in.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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The original Champagnes weren’t bottled with the intent of undergoing secondary fermentation that would cause its trademark bubbles to form.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
5 Oct. 2025
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The state amended its original complaint in federal district court and filed a second temporary restraining order to pause the president’s actions, Rayfield said.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
5 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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The following excerpt details their match at the 2022 U.S. Open, in which Alcaraz and Sinner played the computer-game epic that announced their incipient takeover of tennis to the world.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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In other words, the country’s existing industrial and financial ecosystem often helps nascent industries, benefiting both.—
Peter Vanham,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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The nascent sector has strong political backing and has made significant progress on core engineering problems.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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