incipient

CEFRC2

/ɪnˈsɪp.i.ənt/

adjective

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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Employees shall be familiarized with the use of a fire extinguisher in incipient stage fire fighting.
After 500 years, incipient towns appeared.
It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species necessarily attain the rank of species.

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How many more places might have been distributed by her incipient majesty it is impossible to say, for the thread of her meditation was broken by the sudden termination of the path.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 141
It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species necessarily attain the rank of species.
1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
It may even be that because of incipient satiation, the shares of the marginal dollar display consumption propensities that are the reverse of the ones exhibited by the average dollar.
1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 115
Aislyn presses back against her house’s front door, panting a little with an incipient panic attack.
2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 405

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Borrowed from Latin incipiēns, present participle of incipiō (“begin”).