adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an incipient drinking problem
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I am pretty sure that these noises do not proceed from incipient compression failures.
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Some assiduously fill notebooks with writing: incipient novelists or thesis writers?
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The incipient spouses are of course excited by the adventure, the new life, heralded by marriage.
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The wind came howling down the street full of rain and incipient snow.
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Yet despite these incipient industrial concentrations, the economy of Piedmont remained overwhelmingly agrarian and rural.