often attributive
1
: a young bird just fledged (see fledge sense 1)
a female bird feeding her fledglings
2
: an immature or inexperienced person
fledgling medical students
3
: one that is new
a fledgling company
Examples of fledgling in a Sentence
a female bird feeding her fledglings
at hockey he's still a fledgling and needs to work on his basic skating skills
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The fledgling company was Isomorphic Labs, the secretive artificial intelligence life sciences startup spun out of Google DeepMind after one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years.
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Hayden Field, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
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Syria’s fledgling force has little of material value to deal with external threats from Israel or Iran.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025
Analysts say that punishing anyone from factions fighting alongside the government could trigger a wide-scale insurrection — a potentially deadly blow to a fledgling government relying on those groups to secure its grip of the country.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Hayden Field, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
For fledgling businesses with limited capital, small in-house teams and modest infrastructural capabilities, BPO is an option that can offer a cost-effective and accelerated way to scale their operation.
—Vidya Plainfield, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Syria’s fledgling force has little of material value to deal with external threats from Israel or Iran.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025
Analysts say that punishing anyone from factions fighting alongside the government could trigger a wide-scale insurrection — a potentially deadly blow to a fledgling government relying on those groups to secure its grip of the country.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Fledgling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fledgling. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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fledgling
noun
fledg·ling
ˈflej-liŋ 
1
: a young bird just fledged
2
: an immature or inexperienced person
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