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Recent Examples of nascent Most marine carbon dioxide removal initiatives, including those involving OAE, are still in a nascent stage. ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025 And this is a very nascent market with only approximately one third of airplanes globally having Wi-Fi, so there is a huge untapped market, which Viasat should get a large piece of despite competition from Starlink and other competitors. Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2025 The company has a high cash burn rate and a very small revenue base, which is typical for a business in a nascent industry. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Fox also owns part of the nascent United Football League. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nascent
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Adjective
  • While these tools are typically applied for the initial candidate screening, these systems can filter out even highly-qualified candidates if their profiles don’t meet the AI system’s particular criteria.
    Jon Stojan, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Here's our top story this morning: Developments can take years to go from initial conceptualization to vertical reality.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona have recorded footage of a key stage of human development in real time, and in 3D, for the first time.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Luis Quiñones #23 of UANL Tigres controls the ball against Emilio Lara (L) #23 of América during the first half of the Campeon de Campeones final at Dignity Health Sports Park on June 30, 2024 in Carson, California.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The following excerpt details their match at the 2022 U.S. Open, in which Alcaraz and Sinner played the computer-game epic that announced their incipient takeover of tennis to the world.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Leaders in those countries remember the havoc wreaked by an incipient Islamic Republic that sought to shore up its revolutionary enterprise through acts of terror.
    Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • Rodgers’ budding connection with Wilson and the second-year receiver’s surging performance over the last couple weeks may diminish the need to add from the outside, to a degree.
    Mike DeFabo, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • It’s been five years since the budding tech giant Palantir Technologies uprooted the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Denver, hoping to plant itself in the emerging tech hub and escape protests that had erupted both within the company and outside its doors.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
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  • Many of Piker’s viewers come to him with inchoate opinions.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Running deep beneath all these threads seemed to be an inchoate feeling that simply to show evil was to become its apprentice.
    Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • One of the fastest-growing districts in the state, Leander ISD operates dozens of elementary, middle and high schools.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There are indications that students who had to attend school at the elementary and high school level were noticeably behind where other students would have been at that same point in their education.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This batch features the entire main cast of the original Star Trek series, from Capt. James T. Kirk, Spock and Uhura to Nurse and eventual-Chief Medical Officer Christine Chapel and Yeoman and eventual-Communications Officer Janice Rand.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The female figures were not imbued with any larger meaning by the original artists.
    Eric Adler August 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025

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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.

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