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
Some excess material is therefore spat away, channelled by the star's nascent magnetic field into beams of matter that spurt from the young star's magnetic poles.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 June 2025
Industry critics say higher taxes could hurt the state’s nascent legal cannabis marketplace — which still hasn’t fully launched — by making black market alternatives more appealing to customers.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 15 June 2025
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
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
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 June 2025
Industry critics say higher taxes could hurt the state’s nascent legal cannabis marketplace — which still hasn’t fully launched — by making black market alternatives more appealing to customers.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 15 June 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nascent
Adjective
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Phishing Email Detection And Response Phishing remains the most common initial attack vector.—
Karan Alang,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Scientists defined daytime napping as sleeping between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. After the initial study, researchers kept tabs on the participants for eight years and discovered that 5,189 (6.0%) of them died during that time period.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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This is not the first time the council has approved increasing ticket prices.—
Jasmine Mendez,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
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The first helicopter airline in Greece, hoper, has added four new destinations to its route map: Ios, Syros, Anafi and Porto Heli.—
Ramsey Qubein,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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Consequently, embracing innovation and technology to contain incipient fires quickly is critical.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
23 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
Adjective
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The audience was a mix of investors, developers and budding entrepreneurs.—
Saakshar Duggal,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Retreating deeper into the mind and spaces of comfort and budding habits did.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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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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What To Know The growing resistance to phones on school grounds has been burgeoning since Florida enacted statewide changes in elementary and middle schools in 2023.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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Queen, an elementary schooler at the time, preferred to play at Goldilocks, another neighborhood court five blocks away.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
25 June 2025
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Because these are open-box deals, the items have been taken out of their original packaging and could arrive with minor scratches—but that won’t stop us from accepting the massive discount.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 June 2025
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Both sides offered slightly competing proposals to respond to the note, with the government’s proposal encouraging jurors to firmly stick to the original instructions on the law.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
30 June 2025
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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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