inchoative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • Rocket Lab, like Firefly, has diversified its product offerings after an initial focus on launch services.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 July 2025
  • After the initial training period, managers must be trained to become competent mentors and coaches.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • The project is the first to enlist youth to do this monitoring.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
  • With the first two episodes already having so much drama, the rest of the summer is sure to be eventful.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • What an inglorious end to a program that benefited so many young people during its formative and early years.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 16 July 2025
  • Traditionally, student assessment comes in two forms: formative and summative.
    Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 16 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
  • Now, after flash floods earlier this month killed at least 135 Texans in the Hill Country, the bill’s original authors are hoping Abbott will give the proposal a second look.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
  • On July 18, Taylor Nation posted a new archive section of her website that includes 15 tabs for each of her albums (11 original recordings and four rerecords).
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • On one hand, part of their appreciation for warning sirens lies in the noble purpose of preventing harm in the face of incipient natural disasters.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025
  • Miss Lonelyhearts—who is actually a man—is an advice columnist receiving letters from people who are impoverished, in despair, and surrounded by an atmosphere of moral depravity and incipient fascism.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • The nascent recognition was far from the first time that Birmingham has recognized the continuing impact of Black Sabbath.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 25 July 2025
  • The Incredible Hulk' (2008) Before ultimately being replaced in other movies by Mark Ruffalo, Edward Norton starred as scientist Bruce Banner in this odd duck from the nascent MCU.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • One answer to think about is this fundamental fact that nature itself is quantum.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • But to dwell on Hamas’ crimes as some sort of justification is to ignore the fundamental truth that two wrongs don’t make a right.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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