incipient

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Netflix has reportedly reached out to the administration to explain—correctly—why treating it as an incipient subscription streaming monopolist is wrong in a world of YouTube, TikTok and countless ad-supported streaming competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

In 2018, as Adams begins to plan for his incipient mayoral campaign, a Turkish promoter reaches out to an Adams staffer with a straw-donor strategy.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2024

“We were told that we should start small,” said guitarist Lucia de la Garza, laughing about their incipient prank war.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024

“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024

Hence if a productive crop is already available, incipient farmers will surely proceed to grow it rather than start all over again by gathering its not yet so useful wild relative and redomesticating it.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond