incipient
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Netflix has reportedly reached out to the administration to explain—correctly—why treating it as an incipient subscription streaming monopolist is wrong in a world of YouTube, TikTok and countless ad-supported streaming competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
As fine arts funding withers across sectors and Hollywood budgets shrink while studios retreat from local productions, workers are still recovering from lengthy strikes and the incipient threat of artificial intelligence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 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
“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024
Any incipient farmers in Aboriginal Australia would have faced similar cycles in their own populations.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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