incipient
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That the incipient games are likely to be less a party than a very expensive headache.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
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
“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
As is true of most incipient bad things in life, I had not really prepared myself for this possibility.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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