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Discover LudwigThe phrase "half-formed idea" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an idea that is not fully developed or thought out. Example: "During the brainstorming session, I shared a half-formed idea about a new marketing strategy that we could refine together."
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Thus ministers floating even a half-formed idea tend to command the front page, because they could feasibly turn it into reality.
Her exaggerated affectations suggest less a diva of the theater than a civilian's half-formed idea of such an exotic being.
Instead, Mr. Gingrich makes nearly all the key strategic decisions by himself, and in a manner befitting his personality — spontaneously, thinking aloud, often voicing a half-formed idea in full public view before committing to it.
That half-formed idea jelled a bit more at a birthday party he attended, he said, where one gift was a book of 150 song lyrics that people consistently get wrong.
But gloomy types wonder if the profusion of highly valued internet start-ups with lighter-than-air business plans is evidence of a different kind of bubble.For the first time since 2000, internet and technology entrepreneurs can raise seed capital with little more than a half-formed idea and a dozen PowerPoint slides.
The best process I know of to turn a half-formed idea into something more solid, without replicating some path other people have already taken, is simply to free write about it.
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It revived memories of university: talking glibly about books and tossing around half-formed ideas.
Like an endless series of prompts, the photographs are a record of half-formed ideas to which I hope to return.
The Al Capone we meet is not the brutal Chicago crime boss, but a nervy driver with a loving family and a hot head full of half-formed ideas.
If you're a white college professor, you can float half-formed ideas and say controversial things; that's what you're paid to do.
The book is a mess, a snarl of half-formed ideas, but at least it has ideas, and Little certainly can't be accused of failing to give rage its due.
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