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incipient

[in-sip-ee-uhnt] / ɪnˈsɪp i ənt /


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Incipient city-states are emerging in areas across the vast North African country over which the interim government has so far not been able to exert effective control.

From Time • Oct. 15, 2011

Incipient growth controls were washed away in the flood tide.

From Time Magazine Archive

Incipient Pedagog Hall will not have to worry about teacher's pay; "no arrangements for compensation have been made."

From Time Magazine Archive

Incipient mutiny was quelled by sending more hunters off with Ismyloff to explore new sea-otter fields in Prince William Sound.

From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Incipient gangrene below the seat of fracture, with associate inflammation, developed; but on account of the increasing gangrene it was determined to amputate.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)




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