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nascent

adjective as in underdeveloped

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On Friday, as a nascent peace deal promised an end to a hostage crisis that stretched for 734 days, Netanyahu’s office summoned Nepal’s ambassador to Israel for a meeting.

The evidence around using psychedelics as medicine may be nascent, but the online market of self-proclaimed healers offering curated journeys involving various illegal substances is booming.

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The city established limited library services in the nascent Pacific Palisades in the 1920s, and the community got its first branch library in 1952.

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High tariffs would protect nascent industrialization and increase federal revenue.

Stagecoach services, like the pony express, took days to traverse the gutted tracks across the wilderness that still separated America’s nascent cities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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