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adjective

nascent

CEFR C2

just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential

In a sentence

Six example sentences with nascent, each labelled with its topic.

  • The nascent company had four employees, a borrowed office, and one customer who paid late every single month.

    Startups

  • The nascent standard works in two browsers today, but the specification is already thick enough to suggest a future.

    Technology

  • A nascent field with fifteen researchers and no textbook can still produce the result everyone cites twenty years later.

    Science

  • The city's nascent jazz scene had two clubs and one record shop, but every week another band appeared.

    Music

  • Governments often shelter a nascent industry with tariffs, arguing it needs a decade to grow strong enough to compete.

    Economics

  • The nascent movement had no office and no leader, only a petition that gained a thousand names a day.

    Politics

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