Examples of incipience in a Sentence
since its incipience, the show has been on the cutting edge of comedy
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Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience domestically.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
Yet this modest drama invokes the power of incipience—fear of what will happen next—and amplifies it with lean writing in the service of flawless acting.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
Yet this modest drama invokes the power of incipience—fear of what will happen next—and amplifies it with lean writing in the service of flawless acting.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
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“Incipience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incipience. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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incipience
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in·cip·i·ence
in-ˈsip-ē-ən(t)s 
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