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
And that could be a problem for any nascent deal between the United States and Iran.
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Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
Many will be looking to see whether Apple’s history of turning nascent technologies into popular products will apply to AI, especially after the company’s AI ambitions have faced delays.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
Built in the late 1940s and early ’50s during the nascent days of the aerospace boom in the San Fernando Valley, the industrial warehouse had more recently been home to a company that manufactured neon signs.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026
Some experts fear tech companies and venture capitalists are pouring too much money into a still-nascent and unproven technology.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
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Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 June 2026
Many will be looking to see whether Apple’s history of turning nascent technologies into popular products will apply to AI, especially after the company’s AI ambitions have faced delays.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
Built in the late 1940s and early ’50s during the nascent days of the aerospace boom in the San Fernando Valley, the industrial warehouse had more recently been home to a company that manufactured neon signs.
—Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026
Some experts fear tech companies and venture capitalists are pouring too much money into a still-nascent and unproven technology.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nascent
Adjective
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The Patriots had held possession in the overtime period since the initial draw control, but the tenacious Notre Dame Academy defense was plugging gaps exceptionally well.—
Jack Murray,
Boston Herald,
11 June 2026
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But initial attempts to send her to Tahiti, a French dependency, about 1,350 miles — or a 30-hour sea journey — from Pitcairn, were rejected by French Polynesian authorities.—
Matthew Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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One of the game’s best players just recorded his first goal in the World Cup!—
NBC News,
NBC news,
17 June 2026
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Kingsley’s first job as an actor was performing Shakespeare in schools.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
Adjective
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Even incipient technologies like quantum computing rely on specialized fabrication and precision engineering.—
Eric Kutcher,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
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His incipient political ascent has been marred by tragedy—41 people died and more than 80 were injured in a stampede at a TVK rally in 2025.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Brown secured Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour that week, solidifying his status as one of the game’s youngest and hottest budding stars.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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The series, which follows Sherlock Holmes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) as a college student and budding detective, was the top series debut of the week.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Yet, even these inchoate moments deepen the music’s sense of honest confusion.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
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These are the inchoate and unarticulated aspects of the relationship an author offers to us through a book, the parts of the reading experience that provide a kind of psychological mooring for a reader.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Bondi’s father, Joseph, was a professor of education at the University of South Florida; her mother, Patsy Hammer, was an elementary-school teacher.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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There are organizations that have pioneered the effective teaching of math, especially in elementary and middle schools.—
Stanley S. Litow,
New York Daily News,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Fountain explains how the political times of the original Rasputin increasingly mirror our own and reads from Rasputin Swims the Potomac.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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As soon as that original article with my collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier was published in the summer of 2012, immediately there were many labs that started using it and testing it for gene editing in different systems.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 June 2026
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