as in initial
beginning to come into existence
only just recently gained an inceptive understanding of the overwhelming vastness of the universe
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Recent Examples of inceptive
Vaccinating our faculty and staff is our first step toward keeping our schools open and safe and will be inceptive to reopening our economy.
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Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inceptive
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As the sector transitions from the initial brute-force stage of training large models to the challenge of running them affordably and efficiently on a large scale, designers are dividing into rival factions.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Sharks general manager Mike Grier and Sherwood’s camp have had initial discussions about what the Ohio native’s next contract would look like, and the two sides were reportedly far apart in negotiations.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Could John, a nascent media mogul, have run this very magazine?—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
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Murati’s startup raised about $2 billion in July, in a seed funding round that was the largest ever in Silicon Valley, and which valued the nascent company at about $12 billion.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Cook, appointed by then-President Joe Biden and the first female Black governor to serve on the Board, has denied any wrongdoing.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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Many Nordic investors and founders annually travel to Copenhagen for the first startup event after the summer break.—
Melinda Elmborg,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In elementary education, many students have suffered from unscientific reading strategies.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The trading cards were first developed in Japan in 1996 and had early international success as a lunch-hour activity for elementary-school kids.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Ultimately, no one stands to benefit more from this incipient trend toward climate sanity than the American people themselves.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2025
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The nature of a yet-unannounced product or incipient organization demands confidentiality.—
Anthony Shore,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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The vision, however, was as crucial as the sound, and the vision was as yet inchoate, embryonic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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Malcolm has an inchoate sense—heavily influenced, no doubt, by the spell cast by an attractive woman, drugs, and a gallon of booze—that his relationship with Violet lacks the honesty of Grant and Chelsea’s.—
Willing Davidson,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
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“Inceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inceptive. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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