Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inchoate manner; rudimentarily.
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- adverb In an
inchoate way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We have wanted a World Wide Mind inchoately, inarticulately, for thousands of years.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Mr. Baron-Cohen's case studies offer arresting glimpses into the only inchoately mapped world of empathic malfunction, and as a concise, nonspecialist's tour of the brain's emotional machinery the book is unlikely to be bettered.
The Problem With 'Evil' Raymond Zhong 2011
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We have wanted a World Wide Mind inchoately, inarticulately, for thousands of years.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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By starlight, then, he went on walking—it seemed he must—along the slope of a great hill, and glanced sometimes to his right at the huge, inchoately flickering body of water that lay below, and unfolded itself to the western horizon.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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By starlight, then, he went on walking—it seemed he must—along the slope of a great hill, and glanced sometimes to his right at the huge, inchoately flickering body of water that lay below, and unfolded itself to the western horizon.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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By starlight, then, he went on walking—it seemed he must—along the slope of a great hill, and glanced sometimes to his right at the huge, inchoately flickering body of water that lay below, and unfolded itself to the western horizon.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Much of this can be explained by China's own explanation of his feelings about crime novels, which I read with that wonderful emotion no single word defines, but which comes whenever you read something you've thought, inchoately but naggingly, and then encountered in someone else's efficient and better-developed expression.
Decade: Some Books 2010
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The decades long drumbeat of rhetoric about 'Liberal media' has got corporate news outlets so inchoately spooked and over-cautious they wouldn't report that 2+2 = 4 unless they get it from an official source.
McCain Campaign Attacks TPM, Keeps Denying Our "Carved B" Story 2009
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Libertarian with an honours degree in Mathematical Economics and an inchoately angry Bloggin' Tory?
There's gullible, and then there's screaming ignorant. CC 2009
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What Naftali doesn't apparently realize, or does so only inchoately, is that a U.S.
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