as in initial
beginning to come into existence
only just recently gained an inceptive understanding of the overwhelming vastness of the universe
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Recent Examples of inceptive
Vaccinating our faculty and staff is our first step toward keeping our schools open and safe and will be inceptive to reopening our economy.
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Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inceptive
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Four out of the five former Biden White House officials tapped for congressional interviews have made initial contact with the committee via their lawyers since the chairman sent his letters on May 22, a source familiar with the panel’s work told the Washington Examiner.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
29 May 2025
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The Three Components: Decoding The P’s Financial plans can often follow a standard, cookie-cutter approach if advisors do not delve deeply enough during the initial discovery process or in ongoing discussions.—
Monish Verma,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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The Limit Of Blunt Instruments Originally designed to protect nascent industries, tariffs without complementary tools such as innovation funding, workforce development, and infrastructure investment often do more harm than good.—
Elena Bou,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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The possibilities these nascent technologies enable, the founder and chief executive officer said, are vast.—
Noor Lobad,
Footwear News,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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Adding to the shock factor of this particular comeback was how badly Indiana handled the ball in the first half.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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Five years after the first trial in 1342, Hugh Colne was convicted of being one of the men to stab Forde in the stomach and sentenced to the notorious Newgate Prison.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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The bill will prohibit cell-phone use throughout the school day in elementary and middle schools.—
News Service Of Florida,
Sun Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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Thirty-two busloads of elementary students from Title 1 schools throughout San Diego County eagerly hopped off buses during the week of May 12-16 to enjoy an enriching, exciting, and totally fun Plant*Grow*Eat morning at the Del Mar Fairgrounds’ Infield Farm.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
Adjective
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There are many incipient VPPs clustered around utilities across the country.—
Llewellyn King,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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Abrego Garcia’s case was a human tragedy and an incipient constitutional crisis.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Many of Piker’s viewers come to him with inchoate opinions.—
Andrew Marantz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Running deep beneath all these threads seemed to be an inchoate feeling that simply to show evil was to become its apprentice.—
Cutter Wood,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Inceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inceptive. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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