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Recent Examples of nascent But Mark the Tailor, which quietly launched this past November, is giving Boston’s nascent menswear guys a homegrown label of their own. Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2025 On May 1, 1866, a White mob laid siege to the nascent Black community that had begun to thrive in Memphis, Tennessee. Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 16 Feb. 2025 Or does the show have more to say about the Ice Truck Killer in his nascent stage? Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025 SkyDrive View 3 Images SkyDrive has long taken a leadership role in Japan's nascent eVTOL industry with sights on eventually making its flying cars as ubiquitous as automobiles. New Atlas, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nascent
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Adjective
  • Seeing its initial advantage on the boards evaporate, UConn went into the break trailing, 37-33.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2025
  • While the team has become the most successful spring football league franchise, dating back to the years of the initial United States Football League in the 1980s, the Stallions’ growing trophy collection hasn’t quite translated to the team’s bottom line.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On the other hand, Creed is a seasoned campaigner in the Xfinity Series but is still chasing his first win.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Now Tennessee has staked a claim to the first No. 1 seed in program history with a stirring comeback, charging back from a nine-point deficit in the final 10 minutes.
    Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Mexico City’s Art Week has begun, amid the dramatic backdrop of an incipient trade war, sparked by US President Donald Trump, as ARTnews’ Harrison Jacobs reports.
    The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Although the way forward in the incipient relationship between Maduro and Trump will hinge on the regime complying with its commitments of accepting the deportation flights, sources told the Herald that Maduro hopes to build on this initial engagement to try to achieve more long-term goals.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Back in the Before Times, the pre-streaming era, budding young cinephiles learned about classic movies the old-fashioned way, by staying up past their bedtimes and tuning in to The Late, Late Show.
    Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025
  • During the research, one collaborator noticed that seagrasses grow complex colony patterns from budding clones — just like corals.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • In life, Nichols had been diminished to an abstraction, a target for the inchoate rage of men who were, at least nominally, part of his own community.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Williams and his admirers were certainly right to point out the inchoate and woolly nature of much of the 'survival of the species' talk which was in the air in the mid-20th century.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2011
Adjective
  • In a separate statement, Keller’s board of trustees thanked Johnson for her fiscal leadership and for her leadership in implementing a student cell phone ban during school hours as well as bringing armed security to elementary and intermediate campuses.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Interestingly, many of the elementary schools built here from 1886-1891 were named for poets, including John Greenleaf Whittier.
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Many have long since been demolished or altered beyond recognition, but some of the most beautiful have miraculously kept their original structures and decoration intact.
    The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
  • This production also boasts an original music score by young Russian composer (and Yale School of Music grad) Arseniy Gusev and a non-realistic set designed by Silin Chen.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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