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
  • As with the coal black tree snake, the atra tree snake has thus far only been found on its initial island of discovery, Misima.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The cost of the initial investment has not been fully determined, Roberts said.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Kinkade’s nascent pieces were often dark and provocative.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Thanks to the silversmith’s midnight ride, the nascent colonial militia was able to transform into a formidable threat, driving the British into retreat and setting the stage for a new nation.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Dandies were the first true representations of male fashion.
    Mecca Pryor, Essence, 1 May 2025
  • The style retailer, which expanded to include accessories, fragrances and footwear, won Combs a Council of Fashion Designers of America Award in 2004 for menswear designer of the year, the first Black designer to earn the honor.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • That really elementary approach to writing is one of my favorite things.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2025
  • There are no plans to increase the student-teacher ratio at elementary and intermediate schools.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Judeo-Christian tradition, which began with God's world-transforming revelation to the incipient Israelite nation at Mount Sinai, birthed Western civilization and has nourished it over the course of thousands of years.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Is a scramble for resources to blame for conflict, or are incipient inequalities and economic injustice the primary cause; or perhaps the two are related in some way?
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 13 Mar. 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 5 May. 2025.

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