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nascent

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Meaning

Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

Evolving; being evolved or produced.

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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state... James Clerk Maxwell

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent. Peter Brimelow

A spaceship rhymes with all the dreams, nascent wonder, and hope of a humanity looking up in awe at an excruciatingly beautiful Cosmos, with. Vanna Bonta

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. Bryant H. McGill

The repercussions of the coup on nascent democracies in the Arab world will be destructive. People may soon lose faith in the democratic process, paving the way for the revival of extremist groups...The coup serves to strengthen the radicals, interrupting the course of peaceful change. Tawakkol Karman

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. François de La Rochefoucauld

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