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incipient

[in-sip-ee-uhnt] / ɪnˈsɪp i ənt /


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That the incipient games are likely to be less a party than a very expensive headache.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

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

But he stressed there were "incipient problems" not being tackled.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

“Doctor Strangelove,” “Catch-22,” and “M*A*S*H” collide in British journalist Phoebe Greenwood’s blistering debut novel, “Vulture,” a darkly comic, searing satire grounded in historic politics, suffused with incipient journalism and imbued with self-aggrandizement.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

It sees the American Revolution as an incipient national movement with deep, if latent, origins in the colonial era.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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