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incipiently
adverb
formaluk /ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt.li/ us /ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt.li/
in a way that is just beginning to develop:
Most of the language varieties were already, incipiently, moving in the same direction.
This feature was already incipiently present in the seventeenth-century data.
Even with an incipiently curvaceous figure, I looked like a boy.
You come away with some general impressions which may well be, in certain important respects, incipiently misleading.
His writing was inspired by what he saw as incipiently fascist popular culture in the 1950s.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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be in the first flush ofidiom
be/get in on the ground flooridiom
become
begin
branch out
develop
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grow
half-cock
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here goes!idiom
hit the ground runningidiom
motion
start on something
start out
start/set/get the ball rollingidiom
starting
stirring
the ground floor
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