inchoate

But the definition is so inchoate that decisions about whether something rates as fair use are typically done by judges on a case-by-case basis.

Calling it blood money, he uses it only to fund his inchoate plan to crush the Squid Game.

Back then, it was a handful of female video game developers and critics who were presented to largely male crowds online as targets for relentless, inchoate abuse.

But although his methodology was questioned, he opened the door to a generation of social scientists for the analysis of often subjective and inchoate aspects of human emotion and behavior.

Another problem with the analysis is that the candidates’ proposals are inchoate — as the committee acknowledges.