inchoative

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inchoative
Adjective
  • Since the initial economic shock from the COVID-19 pandemic, claims have generally stayed between 200,000 and 250,000.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
  • Cancel For Any Reason coverage Up to 75% reimbursement for nonrefundable trip costs if purchased within 20 days of your initial trip deposit.
    Liz Knueven, CNBC, 29 May 2025
Adjective
  • Christian Walker dressed, dwelled and debriefed there for the first 49 games of his Astros tenure.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 25 May 2025
  • Neither was the British version of The Office, which launched in 2001, though that was among the first television series to run with it.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 25 May 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
  • These operators pay artisans and specialized mechanics top dollar to maintain and refurbish the century-old rides, all in an effort to preserve their original design and craftsmanship.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • Prime was intended not only to provide services to Elite but to control Elite’s operations, Elite’s original bylaws show.
    Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2025
Adjective
  • There are many incipient VPPs clustered around utilities across the country.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Abrego Garcia’s case was a human tragedy and an incipient constitutional crisis.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The possibilities these nascent technologies enable, the founder and chief executive officer said, are vast.
    Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 27 May 2025
  • The Limit Of Blunt Instruments Originally designed to protect nascent industries, tariffs without complementary tools such as innovation funding, workforce development, and infrastructure investment often do more harm than good.
    Elena Bou, Forbes.com, 27 May 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 6 Jun. 2025.

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