Incipient
adjective
Just starting to develop or happen.
He could feel the incipient heart attack.
adjective
Just starting to develop or happen.
He could feel the incipient heart attack.
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Pro Tip 1/3Emerging Presence
Use 'incipient' for something emerging or coming into existence, not for things already established.
She felt the incipient stirrings of hope within her.
Pro Tip 2/3Nuance of Neglect
Use 'incipient' to describe subtly neglecting or ignoring something in its early stages.
His incipient disregard for the rules would later lead to trouble.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Growth
'Incipient' often implies potential for growth or development, use it to suggest future change.
The incipient company showed promise of becoming a market leader.
Pro Tip 1/3Emerging Presence
Use 'incipient' for something emerging or coming into existence, not for things already established.
She felt the incipient stirrings of hope within her.
Pro Tip 2/3Nuance of Neglect
Use 'incipient' to describe subtly neglecting or ignoring something in its early stages.
His incipient disregard for the rules would later lead to trouble.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Growth
'Incipient' often implies potential for growth or development, use it to suggest future change.
The incipient company showed promise of becoming a market leader.
Pro Tip 1/3Emerging Presence
Use 'incipient' for something emerging or coming into existence, not for things already established.
She felt the incipient stirrings of hope within her.
Pro Tip 2/3Nuance of Neglect
Use 'incipient' to describe subtly neglecting or ignoring something in its early stages.
His incipient disregard for the rules would later lead to trouble.
Pro Tip 3/3Potential Growth
'Incipient' often implies potential for growth or development, use it to suggest future change.
The incipient company showed promise of becoming a market leader.
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C.K. Williams: Poetry...
an uncensored vagina, has left me forever infected with an unquenchable lust of the eye. Always that erotic murmur, I'm hardly myself if I'm not in a state of incipient desire.
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How can social media...
incipient protest and he starts using his Facebook feed to take photographs of what he's seeing and documenting now we know this story we know the story of ordinary citizens taking tools that are generally used for distributing that class of portraiture called selfie with
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C.K. Williams: Poetry...
an uncensored vagina, has left me forever infected with an unquenchable lust of the eye. Always that erotic murmur, I'm hardly myself if I'm not in a state of incipient desire.
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Malcolm Turnbull
Australian Politician
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
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Wendell Willkie
American Lawyer
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
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Jim Carroll
American Author
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.
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John Burroughs
American Author
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Ben Fountain
American Writer
Obama was elected on the shoulders of an incipient movement that he allowed to languish once he became president.
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Malcolm Turnbull
Australian Politician
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
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Wendell Willkie
American Lawyer
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
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Jim Carroll
American Author
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.
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John Burroughs
American Author
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Ben Fountain
American Writer
Obama was elected on the shoulders of an incipient movement that he allowed to languish once he became president.
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