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incipient
[ in-sip-ee-uhnt ]
adjective
- beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage:
an incipient cold.
Synonyms: developing, nascent, beginning
incipient
/ ɪnˈsɪpɪənt /
adjective
- just starting to be or happen; beginning
Derived Forms
- inˈcipience, noun
- inˈcipiently, adverb
Other Words From
- in·cipi·ent·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of incipient1
Word History and Origins
Origin of incipient1
Example Sentences
A low-pressure system — perhaps our incipient season’s first nor’easter — may move up the coast this weekend.
As society progresses toward the Metaverse, companies and platforms in this incipient virtual world are taking steps to ensure that it reflects the diversity of the real world.
In contrast, if your thinking is a little cloudy thanks to incipient HACE, that may not seem like such a big problem—and your ability to recognize the problem is compromised by the cloudiness of your thinking.
Both companies wanted him to apply the tools of sociology to address things like hate speech and bullying, maybe any incipient plans for an insurrection.
But his incipient campaign was scuttled, and he soon separated from his fourth wife.
Similarly, much of the policy rhetoric coming from Washington focuses on fears of incipient inflation that have yet to pan out.
At a dinner with journalists, hedge-fund manager George Soros spoke of an “incipient war in currencies.”
He was a prime mover behind the Saudi military intervention in Bahrain a year ago to smash an incipient Shia reform movement.
He takes on multiple projects, but he will prevent incipient confusion if he stops multitasking and completes one thing at a time.
Whether he had shot a man, or robbed a bank, or fired a church, the incipient accusation died away.
And this failure to get hold of the incipient case applies to all the various kinds of adverse influences that cause destitution.
Another arrived with a fine mat, a man of higher rank, whose incipient consumption had often troubled the Master.
Spirits of turpentine rubbed in around the base of the horns, will arrest the disease in its incipient stages.
It was as if some spirit that had breathed on him, sustaining him, lightening his incipient heaviness, had been removed.
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