inceptive

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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. Margaret W. Long, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inceptive
Adjective
  • His remarks came as markets began to stabilize following initial uncertainty about the administration's trade tactics.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
  • To get a more complete picture of the impact of Trump’s initial tariff policies on the sporting goods and apparel industry, Sportico obtained a list of suppliers for 11 major companies that share their facilities on the platform Open Supply Hub.
    Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Thanks to the silversmith’s midnight ride, the nascent colonial militia was able to transform into a formidable threat, driving the British into retreat and setting the stage for a new nation.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Kinkade’s nascent pieces were often dark and provocative.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Combs' trial, which will take place in downtown Manhattan, is currently set to begin with jury selection on the first Monday in May.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The Mavs do have a first round draft selection in the upcoming NBA Draft, which will be in the lottery.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Go Nuts For Reading program encourages elementary and middle school students to participate in an eight-book reading challenge at the beginning of the year, leading to free game tickets and a visit from the squirrel mascots, Nutzy and Nutasha.
    Brennan Long, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Authorities said the two juveniles were elementary and middle school age, Alaska’s News Source reported.
    David Chiu, People.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Judeo-Christian tradition, which began with God's world-transforming revelation to the incipient Israelite nation at Mount Sinai, birthed Western civilization and has nourished it over the course of thousands of years.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Is a scramble for resources to blame for conflict, or are incipient inequalities and economic injustice the primary cause; or perhaps the two are related in some way?
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 13 Mar. 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

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“Inceptive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inceptive. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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