germinate
verb (used without object)
to begin to grow or develop.
is germinating
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present progressiveof germinate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Yet even though they’ve held a raft of public hearings and workshops on potential new laws and regulations, another plan is germinating behind closed doors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Her brilliance planted the seed for others like her — daring, uncompromising Black visionaries — to exist, and now that seed is germinating.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
It must be too early to ponder whether Hannah the flower lady is germinating from within—and, granted, the show has enough on its plate without another potential Harrison to worry about.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2012
Other crops have been bountiful; the new U. S. crop is germinating.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in all this period there is germinating in his consciousness—and this very uncertainty is an important element of it—the seed of a far-reaching thought.
From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin
