embryonic
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The sport that began in embryonic form a year before the modern Olympics launched in Athens now wants to join the greatest sporting show on Earth.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Our critic noted that the works on view “give us Gothic architecture in its embryonic state, designs realized in graphic form just before their incarnation as solid matter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Sometimes called “massives,” these embryonic raves bubbled underground, often in former industrial districts with available, frequently forgotten spaces.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was an embryonic version of reality TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Having been immersed in the development of the atom’s destructive potential, they were hoping to shift as a team into work on the generation of electricity and other such peacetime aspects of the embryonic science.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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