incipient
in an early stage; just beginning to appear
Word origin: From Latin incipere, to begin.
Incipient in a sentence
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Doctors detected the incipient illness before any symptoms became severe.
Physicians caught the incipient infection early, before any visible symptoms had developed.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
Using “incipient” well
Incipient marks the very first appearance of something, when it is barely detectable, and so contrasts with established or full-blown.
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