incipiently

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Or maybe not so incipiently, according to maritime analyst John Konrad, in his widely read essay partly titled, “What If the U.S. Navy isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The effect of Mr. Campus’s videos is indeed soothingly meditative and incipiently transcendental.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2010

The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave Fred already puttin' on his white tie, brushin' off his top hat, dancin' in his tails.

From Time Magazine Archive

What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator?

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first time she recognized anew the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin