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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Place your initial $5 bet on one of Sunday's games to instantly unlock $200 in bonus bets alongside a $200 NFL Sunday Ticket discount.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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Ruud made a big push at the start of the second set, looking to basically stick a fork in the match by winning the 28-year-old American’s initial service game.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Through Reconstruction, guns in Black hands fended off armed and masked Klansmen, and helped Black people build nascent political power and the infrastructure of citizenship.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Sep. 2025
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They’re being recognized in national and international competitions and drawing tourists to the still-nascent wine country in Mesa and Delta counties.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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The first pair, Wild Life (1440p) and Wild Life Extreme (4K), uses the Vulkan graphics API to measure GPU speeds.—
Charles Jefferies,
PC Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
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The first hepatitis B vaccine was licensed in 1981, and the ACIP recommended a vaccine dose universally for all babies in 1991.—
Dr. Jade Cobern,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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The distribution of schools earning each letter grade appears to be largely consistent across elementary, middle and high schools, according to the Education Department.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Sep. 2025
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In this program, families of elementary, middle school and high school children come to a local Target, shop for school clothes and hygiene products of their choice and Assistance League pays for their purchases.—
Jessica Peralta,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
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On the macro front, there’s no doubt that the jobs report turned up the level of concern about the economy’s growth pace by a few clicks, while putting some pressure on the not-insignificant camp of economic handicappers who have been calling for an incipient reacceleration in U.S. growth.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
6 Sep. 2025
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The following excerpt details their match at the 2022 U.S. Open, in which Alcaraz and Sinner played the computer-game epic that announced their incipient takeover of tennis to the world.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Other milestones in the proposal Musk would need to meet in order to receive his reward include the deployment of autonomous taxis and humanoid robots, an inchoate industry Tesla is heavily investing in.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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The residents are aggressive only toward outsiders, and this attitude is at least partly justified, given the role of Quill’s work in imposing legal order on the inchoate village.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Inceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inceptive. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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