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incipient

[in-sip-ee-uhnt] / ɪnˈsɪp i ənt /


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Letter Cresset External link April 16: Recent troubling private-credit headlines prompted market Cassandras to proclaim an incipient credit crisis.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

In 2018, as Adams begins to plan for his incipient mayoral campaign, a Turkish promoter reaches out to an Adams staffer with a straw-donor strategy.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2024

Matter blown outward from the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar wind, carries fragments of dust and ice back behind the comet, making an incipient tail.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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