incipient

"We kept seeing incipient problems which I thought were not being tackled properly, and indeed I thought the problems were getting worse," he told the House of Commons committee.

But he stressed there were "incipient problems" not being tackled.

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.