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Word of the Day: Nascent
The drones are no longer in their nascent stages.
They are coming!
In fact, they are already here.
Last summer, one crashed into Himeji Castle, but drones are still a relatively new technology, and society doesn’t fully understand how to deal with them yet.
When something is new or has just started and is probably going to continue to grow, then it is nascent.
Budding has a very similar meaning, but the main difference is that budding can be used to describe a person, whereas nascent cannot be used to describe a person.
We could describe someone as a budding drone pilot, but we could not describe them as a nascent drone pilot.
We’d have to reword the sentence to say they are a budding pilot of the nascent drone technology.
Amazon is in the early stages of experimentation to see how well they can use drones for deliveries.
I’m not sure if you heard about it, but recently, a small drone hit a small plane near an airport in Canada.
There was no significant damage, but it was a close call.
Canada has laws governing where drones can fly, but, you guessed it, the development of rules and regulations dealing with drone technology is still in the nascent stages.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 67.
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