inceptive

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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. Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inceptive
Adjective
  • Phishing Email Detection And Response Phishing remains the most common initial attack vector.
    Karan Alang, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Disclaimer: For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • With its spinoff from NBCUniversal looming (and with it a split from NBC News), MSNBC continues to staff up its nascent news division.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
  • The brand describes Cyrus as the perfect model for the nascent fragrance; someone who’s both free-spirited and versatile.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 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
Adjective
  • In Uvalde, 19 elementary students and two teachers were killed.
    Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 8 July 2025
  • There are elementary and middle school programs, too.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Consequently, embracing innovation and technology to contain incipient fires quickly is critical.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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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“Inceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inceptive. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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