as in nascent
beginning to come into existence
I have an incipient dislike and distrust of that guy, and I only met him this morning
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Recent Examples of incipient
There are many incipient VPPs clustered around utilities across the country.
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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
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, 18 Mar. 2025
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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
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, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incipient
Adjective
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And when the center and a group of locals began planning the conservation district, Vasquez joined the nascent Wynwood Community Enhancement Association and became a leading supporter of the new zoning and the Bakehouse plan.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2025
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Marketers who get in early with nascent media properties can often win favorable rates or hard-to-secure integrations, and a relationship built in the first years of existence can develop into something bigger as time marches on.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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Pele made it 3-1, then Zagallo put the game to bed with Brazil’s fourth after his initial corner was not cleared.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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In the initial preemptive attack, Israel hit the same three sites targeted by the U.S. Several top Iranian nuclear scientists and the top general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed in the operation, according to Iran.—
Luis Martinez,
ABC News,
22 June 2025
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News of its foray into prediction markets has helped its stock price gain more than 100% in the first half of 2025.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
29 June 2025
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Was there a sense of pressure returning to this world after the success of the first film?—
Katcy Stephan,
Variety,
29 June 2025
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“Incipient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incipient. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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