| NOUN | time | incipiency, incipience | beginning to exist or to be apparent |
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| Meaning | Beginning to exist or to be apparent. | |
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| Example | "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency" | |
| Synonym | incipience | |
| Broader | beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset | The time at which something is supposed to begin |
| Adjectives | incipient | only partly in existence |
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