half-formed
Britishadjective
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett sounded frustrated by the solicitor general’s hodgepodge of half-formed arguments, too, and cut through them with a poison dart of a question: “Can you point to any other place in the code, any other time in history, where that phrase together—‘regulate importation’—has been used to confer tariff-imposing authority?”
From Slate
In 1971, Bradwell placed an advert in Time Out magazine which read, "Half-formed theatre company seeks other half" as he looked to link up with other aspiring artists.
From BBC
We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl that’s been crusted over by the steady gnawing of time.
From Salon
We see some guileless part of ourselves within him — a half-formed reflection in his goldfish Dorothy’s fishbowl.
From Salon
But still only half-formed, it is off to a shaky start.
From New York Times
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