inchoative

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • That's because the initial yield of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which discovered nearly 3,000 planets in its nine years of operation, relied on worlds transiting — passing between their star and Earth.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 15 July 2025
  • But xAI’s Grok took a very different route in the initial rounds of testing.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is the first time the river has been opened to swimmers since 1923, Reuters reported.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
  • Estévez, 32, has shined in his first season with the Royals.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Once a mainstay on the NASCAR Cup schedule, Bowman Gray hosted races in the league’s formative years, from 1958 to 1971.
    Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • In those formative years spent as a youngster in Hawaii, surfing had become a big part of his life and moving to Texas was admittedly a bit of a letdown.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 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 current lineup of Jay & The Americans has one original member, 82-year-old harmony vocalist Sandy Deane Yaguda.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2025
  • For example, at the start of this week, my favorite cheap laptop, the Vivobook 14 (Snapdragon X) was on sale for just $550—that's $200 off the original price and $100 off the previous lowest price.
    Luke Larsen, Wired News, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Consequently, embracing innovation and technology to contain incipient fires quickly is critical.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Since the shale boom, oil prices and the U.S. dollar have risen in tandem, suggesting an incipient case of Dutch disease in the United States.
    Michael L. Ross, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • That’s, in part, because the technology is nascent compared with other types of robots already deployed in warehouses at a larger scale.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 10 July 2025
  • This kind of soft satire also puts me in mind of Dorothy West, who excellently sent up a nascent Black bourgeoisie in novels like The Wedding.
    Brittany Allen July 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • From a fundamental perspective, Elevance Health currently possesses a market capitalization of $77 billion.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • All good people, regardless of fundamental beliefs, need to vigorously, with courage, resist the sickness that is Trump and MAGA.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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