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
Its pat, readymade quality threatens to destabilize Godd’s shtick, which, while still nascent, doesn’t offer quite as much juice as Blanton tries to squeeze from it.
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Maxie Younger, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.
—Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
Ten years back, poor internet access, nascent digital payments, and underdeveloped road infrastructure restricted e‑commerce in smaller cities.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
That summer, Gordy purchased a two-story West Grand Boulevard house to serve as a home for his young family while doubling as an office and recording studio for his nascent company.
—Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Maxie Younger, Pitchfork, 21 Apr. 2026
These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.
—Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
Ten years back, poor internet access, nascent digital payments, and underdeveloped road infrastructure restricted e‑commerce in smaller cities.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
That summer, Gordy purchased a two-story West Grand Boulevard house to serve as a home for his young family while doubling as an office and recording studio for his nascent company.
—Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nascent
Adjective
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More advanced detailing came a year after the launch of the Air Max 1000 on the Air Max 95000, as Project Nectar tech allows for the application of additional elements after the initial print run.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Kuchler said the group’s initial meetings would be educational and involve reviewing plans, going over the village’s Comprehensive Plan, and looking at results from communities with similar plans.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Romo’s home runs were the first of the season by a Sox catcher.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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And while this is the king's first visit to his son's new home country since the rift, the four-day work trip isn't a personal one.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Their evident fondness for one another, glowing warmly alongside all their sniping and whispering and eye-rolling, allows all the nightmares in Big Mistakes to feel like a lark rather than an incipient calamity.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 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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The video was filmed at the Los Angeles Theater, and together with the single, serves as the budding pop star’s official introduction.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
20 Apr. 2026
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Since making her first public appearance with Phillips in early 2024, Sperling has proven herself a budding style icon.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The mood is unsettled; the structure is amorphous and inchoate.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 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
Adjective
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Jacobson followed his father to Concordia College, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 1999.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
23 Apr. 2026
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And scattering experiments showed that, at an elementary level, reality was described by individual quanta, possessing specific properties common to all members of their species.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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At Fairmont Bagel, dig into its original poppy-seed bagel.—
Megan Wallitsch,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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