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Doctors David Corn, of Mother Jones, and Alex Pareene of Gawker diagnosed, respectively, amnesia and insipient dementia.

From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2018

She blushed when she saw her mother come in; then with an insipient laugh: "Cymodocea in the circus, isn't it, mother?"

From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Feuillet, Octave

Young as I was and insipient, I was prepared for what is called the burlesque Olympus of the Iliad, so grievous to Professor Murray.

From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

At the farthest edge of the insipient mob, sitting on his horse and watching my uncle's face intently, was the very Mexican whom I had twice seen at Fort Leavenworth.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill

In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark