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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for incipient
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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Phishing Email Detection And Response Phishing remains the most common initial attack vector.
    Karan Alang, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Scientists defined daytime napping as sleeping between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. After the initial study, researchers kept tabs on the participants for eight years and discovered that 5,189 (6.0%) of them died during that time period.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is the first time the river has been opened to swimmers since 1923, Reuters reported.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
  • 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 18 Jul. 2025.

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