fledgling
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Despite a fledgling oil and gas industry, Senegal relies heavily on importing fuel.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Mr. Ergen’s fledgling network failed to get off the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, Wayne, an engineer at the Atari video game company, was in charge of hardware engineering and documentation in the fledgling business.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Iran’s fledgling nuclear-weapons program, already bludgeoned by U.S. and Israeli strikes last year, is now even further from producing a viable bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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