incipient
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Letter Cresset External link April 16: Recent troubling private-credit headlines prompted market Cassandras to proclaim an incipient credit crisis.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
For Frost, fall is the season of incipient regret, of the virtually too late.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
As fine arts funding withers across sectors and Hollywood budgets shrink while studios retreat from local productions, workers are still recovering from lengthy strikes and the incipient threat of artificial intelligence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 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
Old female relations with incipient beards and several wobbling chins made overnight trips to Ayemenem to commiserate with her about her divorce.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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