incipient

His other features all arranged themselves, almost dutifully, around the incipient thought.

He also signals, with chapters on highway-building, housing and incipient suburbanization, new forces that would radically reshape both the cityscape and patterns of living.

If you were worried about incipient inflation, it makes things worse.

“Erasing” De Kooning would get the incipient powerhouse out of the way, artistically speaking.

As fine arts funding withers across sectors and Hollywood budgets shrink while studios retreat from local productions, workers are still recovering from lengthy strikes and the incipient threat of artificial intelligence.