nascent
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I’m charmed by LeBron James’s nascent golf career: How someone at the top of one athletic profession has decided to start at the grim bottom of another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The renewed disruptions have derailed a nascent recovery in oil supplies from the Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The grants were for clean energy projects such as new battery plants, electrical grid upgrades, carbon capture initiatives and a $1.2-billion award for California’s nascent hydrogen hub known as ARCHES.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Their latest project, still in its nascent stages, is bringing the couple back to their roots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
What made their partnership extraordinary was that during this nascent period of nuclear physics, theorists and experimentalists customarily regarded each other with mutual condescension and suspicion.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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