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inchoate

adjective

in-ˈkō-ət

Definition of inchoate

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 The film’s images find a saturated romanticism in the sunset hues and midnight blues of the surrounding, seemingly infinite and defiantly waterless landscape, and thus an apt visual language for the big, inchoate emotions that our heroine feels but can’t always wrangle or articulate. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 May 2026 Woodford himself was quite explicit that his intervention was intended merely to formalize the existing consensus— to backfill a consistent theory behind an inchoate set of practices that had evolved through trial and error. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 There are two teenage boys in the film, Haruki (Waku Kawaguchi) and Keita (Kiyora Fuiwara), whose inchoate erotic feelings for one another, a love that can still barely say its name in provincial Japan, forms a subplot here. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026 In the greater public, a dangerous, inchoate rage directed at Barack Obama persists alongside the widespread affection for him. — Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for inchoate

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Founded in 1967 as a chemistry supply company to serve the then nascent semiconductor industry, Applied Materials has grown into the world’s largest provider of chip making equipment.

— Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
No hurricanes have yet been recorded there this season, thanks largely to fiercer upper-level winds tearing apart nascent storms.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026

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Ukraine received no warning from its partners ahead of the first wave of attacks, and information about a second wave arrived too late for air raid sirens to be activated in time, air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said on national television.

— SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
The model became the first real hit in the emerging athletic shoe industry.

— Phil Wahba, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

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