as in initial
beginning to come into existence
one of the leading figures in the nascent civil-rights movement
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Recent Examples of nascent
Countries such as North Korea already pointed to Libya, whose leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nascent weapons program but was toppled anyway in 2011 after a NATO intervention.
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Nbc News, NBC news, 17 June 2025
His nascent dreams of becoming a skateboarder were derailed when he was hit by a car at the age of five and his father said no more skating.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
Misrepresenting and quashing dissent Protests can serve as a justification for a nascent autocrat to further undermine democratic practices and institutions.
—Jeremy Pressman, The Conversation, 15 June 2025
Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Nbc News, NBC news, 17 June 2025
His nascent dreams of becoming a skateboarder were derailed when he was hit by a car at the age of five and his father said no more skating.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
Misrepresenting and quashing dissent Protests can serve as a justification for a nascent autocrat to further undermine democratic practices and institutions.
—Jeremy Pressman, The Conversation, 15 June 2025
Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nascent
Adjective
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The project saw its construction costs triple from an initial request for proposals estimate of $54 million in 2021 to its final budget of $152 million, which was presented to the University of California Board of Regents for approval in 2022.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
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The film added an additional $30 million overseas, propelling its initial worldwide tally to $60 million.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
22 June 2025
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Gymshark, known for its activewear and fitness community, recently established its first permanent U.S. flagship in New York.—
Brin Snelling,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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The native New Yorker earned his first Oscar nomination for 1974’s The Conversation, and won a few years later, in 1979, for his work on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2025
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Since the shale boom, oil prices and the U.S. dollar have risen in tandem, suggesting an incipient case of Dutch disease in the United States.—
Michael L. Ross,
Foreign Affairs,
12 June 2025
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Another way in which partisanship has brought us to this incipient defeat of the constitutional order is that the Congress has been rendered all but incompetent by faction.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
30 May 2025
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Netflix’s Forever series starring Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. unfolds as a contemporary, budding love story between two shy teenagers who have vibrant dreams set in Los Angeles.—
Malik Peay,
Essence,
12 June 2025
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Of course, Gilgeous-Alexander won the NBA MVP award this season and Haliburton has emerged as a budding superstar.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
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Many of Piker’s viewers come to him with inchoate opinions.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Debates over integration are far from settled Last year, before President Trump took office, Concordia Parish rejected a Justice Department plan that would have ended its case if the district combined several majority white and majority Black elementary and middle schools.—
Collin Binkley,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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Since 2019, Hawkins has led Student Support Services in Valparaiso including special education and social workers after beginning her career as an elementary teacher in 2001.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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The first-stage booster that had been tapped during the original attempts was discarded for a new booster.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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At the World Arts and Cultures graduation, the student speaker wore a keffiyeh, similarly accused Israel of genocide, and claimed to have failed out of her original major, earning applause, not concern.—
Isabella Brannon,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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