inchoative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • The initial court ruled in favor of Chylak in October 2024.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 17 Jan. 2025
  • After the flight from Cleveland, Mahomes headed to the Chiefs’ training facility for treatment and an initial flexibility assessment.
    Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Both of their first court appearances are scheduled for Saturday morning, jail records show.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Sutton was the first D.C. police officer to be convicted of murder for conduct while on duty.
    Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In their tender formative years they were bombarded by magazines and TV and the internet; sans smartphones, their heads still tilted up curiously to billboards.
    Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Renowned for her reclamation of racist caricatures — an early assemblage famously armed Aunt Jemima with a rifle and grenade — Saar is less recognized for her formative work in costume design.
    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In life, Nichols had been diminished to an abstraction, a target for the inchoate rage of men who were, at least nominally, part of his own community.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Williams and his admirers were certainly right to point out the inchoate and woolly nature of much of the 'survival of the species' talk which was in the air in the mid-20th century.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2011
Adjective
  • The original tranche of restrictions passed council 7-1.
    Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The newlywed took to Reddit this week, as original poster (OP) Visual_Ad_158, to reveal how her mother-in-law (MIL) arrived in an entire white gown, which, in pictures, looked indistinguishable from a bridal dress.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • So far 30 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized online betting on sports, and the nascent U.S. industry is worth $10 billion and growing.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Editor’s picks Lynch saw Transcendental Meditation as fundamental to his survival as an artist in Hollywood.
    Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2025
  • That was in full evidence at the Australian Open, with Jovic's heavy defeat to Rybakina and Joint's loss to Pegula, who explained that part of her late development was not caution or planning, but born out of a simple and fundamental fear that all tennis players experience no matter their age.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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