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is incipient
adjective
In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence.
Exact(18)
He is convinced that a "nodal point" in history is incipient: everything will change, in unpredictable ways.
In countries where there is incipient pride in local institutions and lingering resentment over past American hectoring, there was satisfaction or even smugness over the disorderly scenes in Florida.
"It's expensive to have your life fall apart," she says as she struggles with the costs of keeping her fractured family afloat — doctors, special schools, psychotherapy — while observing her daughter's every sarcastic flicker to assess whether this is incipient psychosis or merely an awkward age.
The crusade is incipient: A lot of applications lie in the future.
However, research on adhesively bonded joints of thermoplastic composites is incipient still now.
As it was in the eras of Gutenberg, Edison and Marconi, the technology is incipient and rudimentary, yet it's rapidly improving.
Similar(41)
Both were incipient towns with regular markets.
Polls have been taken, estimates are under way, but there are incipient signs of opposition.
The justification would be incipient damage to the economy brought on by the market turmoil.
Connecting them, across thousands of kilometres, are incipient industrial corridors, thickening ribbons of roadside development.
No shade of grey is admitted in a narrative where all rioters are incipient revolutionaries and all coppers are bastards.
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