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Meanings of inchoate in English

Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed.

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Examples for "incipient"
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Stone libertarians were ready to label any government regulation as incipient Nazism.
Wired
2
This policy helps identify incipient EKC outbreaks and guides infection control efforts.
Pubmed
3
The faint continuous spectrum is probably the result of incipient central condensation.
The Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science
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There seemed to be no trace of incipient fire in the truss.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
5
An incipient stand off developed, but after some time the Orangemen dispersed.
The Irish Times
Usage of inchoate in English
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The thing flexed in inchoate agony and a rudimentary, but growing, hunger.
Perdido Street Station
2
The whole thing may have represented some sort of inchoate craft impulse.
The new yorker
3
Their screams made an inchoate chorus to the cheers of their attackers.
Shadow's son
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He understood what was happening almost immediately, in some inchoate and unstructured way.
Perdido Street Station
5
In this state of flux inchoate ideas meld and cleave, never quite becoming.
The Guardian
6
Johann considered this discovery to be additional evidence to support his inchoate theory.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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These inchoate rumblings of a new appetite did nothing to allay his fears.
Perdido Street Station
8
Pre-Moslem epigraphy of Persia is yet in little more than an inchoate condition.
Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I
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It is the difference between an inchoate wail and a threnody.
Poe
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There are inchoate non-verbal whispers, or grunts and gasps of anger and pain.
The Guardian
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Catholicism presented a coherent and veteran alternative to Orthodoxy's inchoate teachings.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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There was her daughter's inchoate being, the creaturely push and pull Mary remembered.
Flesh and blood
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And, after all, his plans to 'efface' Clayton were only inchoate.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
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Now it was black America's term to explode with inchoate, insensate, indiscriminate rage.
Disintegration: the splintering of black america
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All over the inchoate solar system, the same was happening.
A short history of nearly everything
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The assignat in this first form was an {97} inchoate mortgage bond.
The French Revolution: A Short History
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