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Adjective
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Early concepts deemed successful were built up and introduced to new audiences—revised from their initial offerings to meet the challenges of a wider swath of users or participants.—
Venkat Viswanathan,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025 -
Israel and Hamas have struck a deal for an initial cease-fire that will pause hostilities for six weeks and lead to the release of 33 hostages.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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He is set to become an unrestricted free agent for the first time.—
Daniel Popper,
The Athletic,
13 Jan. 2025
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DeMar DeRozan will return to Chicago for the first time since coming to Sacramento in a three-team sign-and-trade deal last summer.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Set during a time of war and in a location loosely inspired by Pakistan, the story follows both characters through their formative years as opposition to the romance from their fathers, and the growing threat of war, affects their relationship.—
Sunil Sadarangani,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2025
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Despite having played basketball most of his formative years, not to mention his 6-foot-6 frame, Burgomaster had a different plan in South Florida: to earn a finance degree and follow in his father’s accounting footsteps.—
Brendan Marks,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In life, Nichols had been diminished to an abstraction, a target for the inchoate rage of men who were, at least nominally, part of his own community.—
Jelani Cobb,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2023
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Williams and his admirers were certainly right to point out the inchoate and woolly nature of much of the 'survival of the species' talk which was in the air in the mid-20th century.—
Razib Khan,
Discover Magazine,
14 June 2011
Adjective
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The limestone deposit that had yielded the Taung Child, as the original Australopithecus became known, also contained the remains of all sorts of other creatures, including baboons, turtles, and hyraxes.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Eurogamer reports that the console won't be ready to launch until April; this would be similar to Nintendo's strategy for the original Switch, which was announced in mid-January 2017 but not launched until March.—
Ashley Belanger,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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As the past four should have proved conclusively, clinging desperately to long dead norms and procedures in the face of incipient authoritarianism isn't the answer.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2024
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One frequent topic of discussion in its pages was Germany’s militarism, an original sin that had led the country into the Great War and paved the way for incipient fascism.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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There’s a huge reliance on cloud gaming for marketing its brand, which is still a nascent, tiny part of the overall games market.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Together, these vehicles are laying the groundwork for a nascent lunar economy.—
Saurav Shroff,
WIRED,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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At the heart of New York’s defensive struggles lies a fundamental breakdown in what Tom Thibodeau often emphasizes: moving on the flight of the ball.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
18 Jan. 2025
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Editor’s picks Lynch saw Transcendental Meditation as fundamental to his survival as an artist in Hollywood.—
Claire Hoffman,
Rolling Stone,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Inchoative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inchoative. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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