How to Use incipient in a Sentence

incipient

adjective

• The project is still in its incipient stages.
• I have an incipient dislike and distrust of that guy, and I only met him this morning.
• Wu Zhongze laid out the high stakes of the incipient metaverse.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 17 Nov. 2021
• What do incipient organs, traffic jams and the frothy head of foam at the top of a beer glass have in common?
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2018
• But the novel and movie stirred the wrath of the incipient Austrian Nazi movement.
  — Jonathan Bate, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2022
• The second stage is called the incipient conflict stage.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Nor does the job market show signs of an incipient robopocalypse.
  — James Surowiecki, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2017
• Min has an incipient romance with her, and hopes to marry her.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• The United States has struggled against its incipient hates and even appeared, with the election of Barack Obama, to be able to put them aside.
  — Llewellyn King, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• How does the incipient streaming war play out over the next several months?
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
• Mostly green and in the incipient stage, this year's bloom is expected to look less vibrant.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
• If the incipient boom is to produce better results, governments and firms must learn to adopt best practice from around the world.
  — The Economist, 30 Dec. 2020
• That gets to the heart of the incipient independence movement.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Still, along with the inevitable sense of incipient loss, a kind of pre-mourning, the run-up to the finale of any major show can trigger waves of anxiety, even dread among fans.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• Has a high-profile, incipient Hall of Famer ever switched numbers like that?
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• McConnell’s willingness to complain publicly about Trump now, alas, is the tell—not a sign of an incipient battle for the soul of the Party but of a fight that has already been lost.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
• This was in keeping with the rise of the Tea Party movement, which saw in President Obama the first signs of incipient socialism.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2018
• These extra calories can make all the difference to an incipient fire ant colony.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2011
• One incipient fantasy, arising at lunchtime in a restaurant, is smothered by the sight of a young male colleague.
  — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• In China the market is relatively tiny, but there are signs of an incipient boom.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• This is also home to Strike Oil, an incipient street wear line overseen by Nats and featuring her artwork.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2018
• While still in its incipient stages, working with AI will also become more important over the years.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The incipient race to Mars will include companies as well as countries.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• When the storm began to gather Saturday, demonstrators of both stripes had a choice: walk away from the incipient madness or risk being in harm’s way.
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• In the new paper Stony Brook highlights, led by Steve Choi, scientists use the light racing across the universe to wind back the clock, tracing the age of the light and backforming an image of the incipient universe.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2020
• Local reporters picked up on the incipient effort, finding Waters to be both likable and quotable.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2020
• First, in 2005 when Katrina hit, there was no widespread use of smartphones — iPhone hadn't hit the market yet — and social media was in its incipient stages.
  — Author: Kathleen Parker, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
• In short, an incipient hybrid species, which the researchers dubbed the Big Bird lineage, had emerged within two generations.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Team leaders worked up incipient plans at meetings in February and March, refined them based on public input, finalized their first proposal on Friday and had parish pastors present it over the weekend.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
• The mall’s influence and direct role in the local immigrant food economy has been felt far and wide — from its customers to incipient entrepreneurs — and has had ripple effects on restaurateurs’ successes.
  — Caroline Shin, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024