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Meanings of incipient in anglès

Only partly in existence; imperfectly formed.

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Examples for "inchoate"
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The thing flexed in inchoate agony and a rudimentary, but growing, hunger.
Perdido Street Station
2
The whole thing may have represented some sort of inchoate craft impulse.
The new yorker
3
Their screams made an inchoate chorus to the cheers of their attackers.
Shadow's son
4
He understood what was happening almost immediately, in some inchoate and unstructured way.
Perdido Street Station
5
In this state of flux inchoate ideas meld and cleave, never quite becoming.
The Guardian
Usage of incipient in anglès
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Stone libertarians were ready to label any government regulation as incipient Nazism.
Wired
2
This policy helps identify incipient EKC outbreaks and guides infection control efforts.
Pubmed
3
The faint continuous spectrum is probably the result of incipient central condensation.
The Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science
4
There seemed to be no trace of incipient fire in the truss.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
5
An incipient stand off developed, but after some time the Orangemen dispersed.
The Irish Times
6
The incipient smile vanished and was replaced by a somewhat terrible frown.
When the World Shook / Being an Account of the Great Adventure o...
7
An incipient chill, for instance, could often be nipped in the bud.
The End of Man?
8
Her ankle seemed badly swollen; she seemed even to reveal incipient elephantiasis.
The Wrong Twin
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At day 8, these cells were embedded by an incipient fibrin network.
Pubmed
10
I used all of it, slotting cams into bulges and incipient seams.
Climbing Magazine
11
From ground level there is not a glimpse of one incipient acorn.
The Irish Times
12
He had reached the incipient stages of regret of his rash promise.
St. Martin's Summer
13
He has established between animal and plant a unity of incipient mind.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
14
The whole situation is drifting into a state of incipient sympathetic strikes.
An American Idyll / The Life of Carleton H. Parker
15
So the incipient storm dwindled to a sullen mood on her part.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
16
It is a muddle tempered by the ink-bottle, like every incipient government.
Poor Relations
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