incipient
adjective
beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage.
incipiently
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a word derived from
incipient.
Example Sentences
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Or maybe not so incipiently, according to maritime analyst John Konrad, in his widely read essay partly titled, “What If the U.S. Navy isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The effect of Mr. Campus’s videos is indeed soothingly meditative and incipiently transcendental.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2010
Short, stocky, incipiently bald, he started to bowl seven years ago, spent a year working in a filling station to put bowling muscles in his arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator?
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time she recognized anew the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
