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nascent

[ney-suhnt, nas-uhnt] / ˈneɪ sənt, ˈnæs ənt /








ADJECTIVE
underdeveloped
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Kaye was writing about music — for publications like Rock Scene, Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone — when the discipline was still nascent.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2026

In 2009, he shocked the legal industry by departing Skadden for Kirkland & Ellis, which at the time had only a nascent mergers-and-acquisitions practice.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

ESPN’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, designed to lessen its dependency on declining cable TV revenue, is still in its nascent stage.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Writing in a daily note to clients, Louis Gave, founding partner and co-chief executive of Gavekal Research in Hong Kong, discussed the relative success of China’s nascent AI industry.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

The film would not just reflect but in many ways define the still nascent but increasingly twisted Nazi my thos.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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