inchoative

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • The swimmer, later identified as Sean Barton, a visitor from New Mexico, received initial treatment at the scene before being transported to a nearby hospital for further evaluation.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2025
  • The Three Components: Decoding The P’s Financial plans can often follow a standard, cookie-cutter approach if advisors do not delve deeply enough during the initial discovery process or in ongoing discussions.
    Monish Verma, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 6 June 2025
  • Adding to the shock factor of this particular comeback was how badly Indiana handled the ball in the first half.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Jelly, whose real name is Jason Deford, was born in Nashville and spent his formative years there.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 3 June 2025
  • His style philosophy today remains thoroughly shaped by these formative years., representing the spiritual traditions of the Japanese people while simultaneously interpreting Western culture.
    Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 28 May 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
  • The original National Theatre run played from Nov. 21, 2024, through Jan. 25, 2025, in the Lyttelton Theatre before being released to cinemas worldwide through National Theatre Live.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 June 2025
  • During the pandemic-era streaming boom, Netflix, along with other global streamers, invested heavily in original African content in a bid to boost subscriber numbers and touted the continent, with its low streaming penetration rates and large, young population, as a future growth market.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Another way in which partisanship has brought us to this incipient defeat of the constitutional order is that the Congress has been rendered all but incompetent by faction.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 30 May 2025
  • The conversation came at a moment of incipient crises for Trump’s second term.
    Sam Jacobs, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • But a holistic change to organization, training, tactics and operational execution is in the nascent stages.
    Bill Edwards, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • This creates a fundamental mismatch between the investment horizons of businesses and the timelines on which the industries of the future depend.
    Mary Johnstone-Louis, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • Beyond its role in defining styles, the exhibition raised fundamental questions about the relationship between art and industry, the function of ornament, and the need to connect design with social demands.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.

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