incipient
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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
For Frost, fall is the season of incipient regret, of the virtually too late.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
"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.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
“Erasing” De Kooning would get the incipient powerhouse out of the way, artistically speaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025
First, do hunter-gatherers and incipient farmers really know well all locally available wild species and their uses, or might they have overlooked potential ancestors of valuable crops?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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