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  • Sometimes, I let those half-formed ideas swim in the same pool together, and they merge into something new.

    Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts 2010

  • Within it swam the figures of half-formed destroyers.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • He said: "Vince Cable and David Willetts need to explain why he has allowed an ill-thought-out, half-formed Tory election idea to divert precious funding away from genuine research."

    Academic fury over order to study the big society 2011

  • Whereas stream-of-consciousness tries to direct our attention to the internal drama unfolding in human consciousness, the narrative strategy in this novel externalizes everything, articulates explicitly in the narrator's own language what in s-o-c would remain half-formed and implicit.

    Point of View in Fiction 2009

  • The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer's decision to endorse a half-formed proposal to force banks to separate their U.K. retail operations from their investment-banking arms is a leap in the dark that could have unintended global consequences.

    U.K. Bank Revamp Is a Leap in the Dark Simon Nixon 2011

  • Communicating science over the web ... the people who are going to solve those are scientists, they have half-formed ideas in their head, but a lot of the state of knowledge of the human race at the moment is in database, currently not sharing.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mia 2009

  • Under-developed, born at five months with a hole in the heart and no kidneys, frail fingers and half-formed toes, its strange, strangled cry from unready vocal cords made the nurse tremble and cry as she brought it to surgery.

    AT COST • by saintsally 2009

  • She plucked the pencil out of his loose grasp, quelling his half-formed protestations with a mysterious smile.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • Communicating science over the web ... the people who are going to solve those are scientists, they have half-formed ideas in their head, but a lot of the state of knowledge of the human race at the moment is in database, currently not sharing.

    Tim Berners-Lee at TED on 'database hugging' and linked data Mia 2009

  • Tara could feel it pulsing behind her eyes, like a half-formed headache.

    Rogue Oracle 2011

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