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Recent Examples of nascent On a conference call with analysts, Musk laid out aggressive plans to try to expand Tesla’s nascent robotaxi service beyond its limited service area in Austin, Texas. David Ingram, NBC news, 23 July 2025 The chart below maps out the key players shaping Dubai’s RWA landscape, visually highlighting the nascent but rapidly expanding network. Irina Heaver, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025 The feel-good sports comedy, after all, was the nascent streamer's first bonafide hit series. EW.com, 22 July 2025 That’s, in part, because the technology is nascent compared with other types of robots already deployed in warehouses at a larger scale. Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for nascent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nascent
Adjective
  • The statement walks back from the initial 50-day deadline Trump gave Putin on July 14, which would have expired in early September.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 28 July 2025
  • So the lawyers got involved, Marinakis dug in his heels, and once the initial anger had subsided, the charm offensive began to persuade Gibbs-White to stay.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • With the first two episodes already having so much drama, the rest of the summer is sure to be eventful.
    Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 24 July 2025
  • The project is the first to enlist youth to do this monitoring.
    Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • On one hand, part of their appreciation for warning sirens lies in the noble purpose of preventing harm in the face of incipient natural disasters.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025
  • Miss Lonelyhearts—who is actually a man—is an advice columnist receiving letters from people who are impoverished, in despair, and surrounded by an atmosphere of moral depravity and incipient fascism.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 23 July 2025
  • Other modes of delivery have included sled dogs, mules, reindeer and hovercraft, but the agency’s most transformative upgrade occurred in 1918 with the development of airmail at a time when airports were still a budding concept.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Many of Piker’s viewers come to him with inchoate opinions.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Although Vaughns takes on a nickname of the school, the middle school campus and its elementary counterpart were named after Milton Leonard Kirkpatrick, a Black Fort Worth educator who fought for equal education for Black students and equal pay for Black teachers.
    Lina Ruiz August 1, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Aug. 2025
  • In spring 2025, about two-thirds of elementary classroom rosters met the 1995 policy guidelines, and just 14% of MPS schools met the stretch goal under the facilities plan, the Journal Sentinel found.
    Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, after flash floods earlier this month killed at least 135 Texans in the Hill Country, the bill’s original authors are hoping Abbott will give the proposal a second look.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
  • The original vision was to phase out the Flintstones theme, but overwhelming public affection and nostalgia changed their minds.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025

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“Nascent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nascent. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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