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
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced a $10 billion deal with chipmaker Cerebras, a relatively nascent player in the space but one that’s angling for the public market.
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Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026
The second decade of the 20th century had seen San Diego become one of the world’s hotbeds for innovation and development in the nascent field of manned flight.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
Imagine how that respect must grow exponentially when going back a few decades further to the still-nascent days of motorsport, when automobiles were little more than powerful engines with frighteningly thin wheels attached.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2026
The nascent American state aspired to become a branch of science.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
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Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026
The second decade of the 20th century had seen San Diego become one of the world’s hotbeds for innovation and development in the nascent field of manned flight.
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
Imagine how that respect must grow exponentially when going back a few decades further to the still-nascent days of motorsport, when automobiles were little more than powerful engines with frighteningly thin wheels attached.
—Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2026
The nascent American state aspired to become a branch of science.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nascent
Adjective
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These two agents appear to be the two officers identified as the shooters in an initial report by the Department of Homeland Security about the incident.—
Yahya Abou-Ghazala,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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During an initial court appearance Thursday, a judge granted the government's request to detain Kazmierczak pending a detention hearing Tuesday.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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If approved for the public safety role, Williams would be Pittsburgh's first Black director of the department.—
Chilekasi Adele,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Johnson was around in 2013 when Dave Gettleman took defensive tackles Star Lotulelei and Kawann Short in the first and second rounds, respectively, in Gettleman’s first draft as Carolina’s GM.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Ultimately, no one stands to benefit more from this incipient trend toward climate sanity than the American people themselves.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Dec. 2025
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The nature of a yet-unannounced product or incipient organization demands confidentiality.—
Anthony Shore,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Mizzou returns a budding superstar in Donovan Olugbode, along with promising underclassmen in DaMarion Fowlkes and Shaun Terry II.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2026
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Specializing in exaggerated branches and budding blooms, West Elm’s artificial floral selection is designed to make a statement.—
Rebecca Shinners,
Architectural Digest,
9 Jan. 2026
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In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Lud Heat found its way into the hands of Alan Moore, who was tinkering with inchoate ideas about murder.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Stenvik cancelled the annual all-district band concert, scheduled for last week, in which players from the elementary, middle, and high schools perform together on one stage.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
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Her stories are well-told, relevant and often searing, detailing an elementary-school teacher’s slight, a hometown swimming-pool reckoning and chauvinism from an Ivy League club.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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The Oh-My-God particle first interacted with an atomic nucleus in the upper atmosphere, producing a series of daughter particles that each maintain a fraction of the original particle’s momentum, which then collide with greater and greater numbers of particles, and so on.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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The show, clearly meant to be an appealing first exposure for K-pop outsiders, selects Top 40 hits from across the decades and pairs the original artists up with Korean idols, who transform them in ways meant to resemble the K-pop formula.—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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