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inchoate
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  • The artist's inchoate vision gradually took shape as she sketched, transforming from vague impressions into a detailed concept.
    inchoate = not fully formed
  • But even more than that, I found in hip-hop the sound of my generation talking to itself, working through the fears and anxieties and inchoate dreams—of wealth or power or revolution or success—we all shared.  (source)
    inchoate = only partly formed
  • He mumbles a few inchoate phrases to someone who is not there.  (source)
    inchoate = imperfectly formed
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  • Unformed, inchoate.†  (source)
  • John Dorsey slapped his meaty thigh, and bent forward whining inchoately, drooling slightly at the mouth.†  (source)
  • Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear—civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.†  (source)
  • The stink of garbage hit his nostrils, and he jerked back instinctively as something reared over him—a surging mass of inchoate smoke, a cluster of glittering yellow eyes hanging in the darkness.†  (source)
  • An immense psychological pressure, palpable and inchoate, was loose in that room.†  (source)
  • Then suddenly, to her astonishment, she realized that although his distress clearly partook of some vague and inchoate rage, it was not rage at her at all but at someone or something else.†  (source)
  • The structure is now visible; what is inchoate is here stated; we are not so various or so mean; we have made oblongs and stood them upon squares.†  (source)
  • The noises it made sounded like inchoate masses of silk being pulled through trees, as we pull hair through a comb—like heaps of sand pouring on fine sand from a scoop—like gigantic linens being torn —like drums in distant battle—like an endless snake switching through the world's undergrowth of trees and houses— like old men sighing, and women howling and wolves running.†  (source)
  • How unutterably sad was the look this fluid inchoate figure of the wolf threw from his beautiful shy eyes.†  (source)
  • Perchance, amid their proper element of smoke, which eddied forth from the ill-constructed chimney, the ghosts of departed cook-maids looked wonderingly on, or peeped down the great breadth of the flue, despising the simplicity of the projected meal, yet ineffectually pining to thrust their shadowy hands into each inchoate dish.†  (source)
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