as in nascent
beginning to come into existence
I have an incipient dislike and distrust of that guy, and I only met him this morning
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Recent Examples of incipient
In December of that year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to prevent the defeat of the incipient communist regime.
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Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2022
There are many incipient VPPs clustered around utilities across the country.
—Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Abrego Garcia’s case was a human tragedy and an incipient constitutional crisis.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
And an administrative error by the Trump team in its aggressive program to deport undocumented migrants has turned into an incipient constitutional crisis.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
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Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2022
There are many incipient VPPs clustered around utilities across the country.
—Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Abrego Garcia’s case was a human tragedy and an incipient constitutional crisis.
—Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2025
And an administrative error by the Trump team in its aggressive program to deport undocumented migrants has turned into an incipient constitutional crisis.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incipient
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That’s, in part, because the technology is nascent compared with other types of robots already deployed in warehouses at a larger scale.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
10 July 2025
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This kind of soft satire also puts me in mind of Dorothy West, who excellently sent up a nascent Black bourgeoisie in novels like The Wedding.—
Brittany Allen
July 10,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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That's because the initial yield of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which discovered nearly 3,000 planets in its nine years of operation, relied on worlds transiting — passing between their star and Earth.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
15 July 2025
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But xAI’s Grok took a very different route in the initial rounds of testing.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
15 July 2025
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This is the first time the river has been opened to swimmers since 1923, Reuters reported.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
12 July 2025
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Now, for the first time, researchers from the University of Houston have unearthed a royal tomb in Caracol.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 July 2025
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“Incipient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incipient. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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