nascent
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When Gap bought Athleta nearly two decades ago, the athleisure industry was still nascent.
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
Last year, he referred to the nascent technology as a “mutant AI cockroach.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
A.I. has been a key motif of Leo’s nascent papacy, from early speeches to advisory groups to the reception of tech execs who’ve approached the holy man on their own.
From Slate • May 28, 2026
Several governments are racing to master quantum computing, a nascent technology that promises to solve some types of mathematical problems many times faster than "classical" machines.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
For both of those reasons, all developments of economically complex, socially stratified, politically centralized societies beyond the level of small nascent chiefdoms were based on food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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