as in nascent
beginning to come into existence
inchoate feelings of affection for a man whom she had, up till now, thought of as only a friend
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Recent Examples of inchoate
Strong delicately teases out her characters’ emotional stasis, the end of one major phase and the inchoate beginnings of another.
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Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
Families gradually leave; eventually, the nation itself becomes increasingly inchoate, legally and spiritually rooted to a shoreline that is disappearing under rising tides.
—Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
The rage of men whose grievances are inchoate and inexhaustible found expression in a 58-year-old movie star’s humiliation of his 36-year-old former wife.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
The ground beneath their inchoate relationship shifts from scene to scene.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
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Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
Families gradually leave; eventually, the nation itself becomes increasingly inchoate, legally and spiritually rooted to a shoreline that is disappearing under rising tides.
—Kausea Natano, Time, 28 Sep. 2022
The rage of men whose grievances are inchoate and inexhaustible found expression in a 58-year-old movie star’s humiliation of his 36-year-old former wife.
—New York Times, 2 June 2022
The ground beneath their inchoate relationship shifts from scene to scene.
—Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoate
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The nascent Internet of the age had told us that the capybara was a social creature—as many rodents are—and that having a single capy, without access to other animals, much less to his own kind, was unusual.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Without corporate and national investment in CDR technologies, the nascent industry cannot scale to meet future demands.—
Phil De Luna,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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This initial impulse or élan vital is then guided by the fairies Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid and her sister, Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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The initial report from the Senior Bowl is also derived from the in-person meetings that players are allowed to have with teams.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Jan. 2025
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As fine arts funding withers across sectors and Hollywood budgets shrink while studios retreat from local productions, workers are still recovering from lengthy strikes and the incipient threat of artificial intelligence.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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As the past four should have proved conclusively, clinging desperately to long dead norms and procedures in the face of incipient authoritarianism isn't the answer.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2024
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The subsequent lawsuit, filed by another Jane Doe, who appears to be a friend of the first victim, accused Combs of drugging and taking advantage of her at the same Trump Hotel penthouse.—
Marc Griffin,
VIBE.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Debuting their first collaboration hinged on K-Way’s signature Le Vrai Claude packable windbreaker, the two brands are offering the jacket in genderless iterations flanked by a dogwear version, Le Vrai Horatio jacket.—
Martino Carrera,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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