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Six example sentences with incipient, each labelled with its topic.
The scan revealed incipient bone loss, faint enough that a change in diet and exercise could still reverse it.
Medicine
Falling orders and a quiet port hinted at an incipient slowdown months before the official figures confirmed anything.
Economics
Rangers pulled the incipient outbreak of beetles from twenty trees before it could spread across the whole valley.
Environment
The incipient company had a name, two founders, and a spreadsheet, but no product anyone could yet try.
Startups
Teachers can spot incipient anxiety in a pupil weeks before a crisis, often as a sudden reluctance to read aloud.
Psychology
Monitoring caught the incipient disk failure early, flagging a rise in read errors days before anything was actually lost.
Technology
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