Incipient means something is in an early stage of existence. In its incipient form, basketball was played with a soccer ball and peach baskets for goals. Bouncy orange balls and nets came later.
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial;
Adjective S.
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
a.
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial;
as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
Incipient
Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial;
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If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
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