inchoateliterary

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incipient | American Dictionary

incipient
adjective
 fmlus/ɪnˈsɪp·i·ənt/
just beginning or just coming into existence:
He has a black mustache and an incipient potbelly.

Examples of incipient

incipient
How was major inter-state violence, when it looked incipient, averted?
However, there appears to have been a parallel development early on in both regional varieties regarding the incipient emergence of the to -ing pattern.
This implies that the friction velocity and roughness length are both enhanced significantly for the breaking waves when compared with the incipient breaking cases.
All active, incipient colonies were counted along 100-m long and 10-m wide transects (0.1 ha).
The (incipient) overlap is thus taken notice of in a fully explicit way.
Our case has been strengthened by introducing two concepts which, though incipient in the target article, were not properly exploited there.
Further research is needed to understand the structural organization and interactional circumstances of other emergent technologically mediated remote continuing states of incipient talk.
The incipient channels grow through the self-reinforcing interaction of the focusing of flow down troughs and incision.
This bulge suggests the incipient appearance of a finger of fluid, although the calculations failed before that could be fully realized.
State-building, warfare, economic growth, and incipient beliefs in reason and progress were coalescing here in a colonial version of the origin of the modern world.
A chest radiograph showed marked cardiac dilation with the incipient signs of pulmonary edema.
The city's gold, however, has been turned into paper, another incipient waste-product.
Similar to a continuing state of incipient talk in copresence, opening and closing sequences are rare.
The incipient drops are connected by a thin bridge which is sometimes cylindrical and sometimes bulges when a more substantial secondary drop occurs.
Nonetheless, this incipient knowledge of se's connection to argument structure was not generalized to other verb classes along targetlike lines.
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