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The team is doing embryonic stem cell research.embryonic = of an organism in the early stages of development
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The idea is still in the embryonic stage.embryonic = in an early stage of development
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The Internet was still embryonic in the early 1990's, so that kind of information wasn't readily available to most people.
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A newborn pup, dark and shiny in its embryonic sac, lay on the gray bedding.† (source)embryonic = of an organism in the early stages of development prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting OR of anything in an early stage of development
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My grandmother said that Owen resembled an embryonic fox.† (source)
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At this embryonic point, the unit moves as a pack, holding on to each other as they cross unfamiliar terrain, sure only of their specialness.† (source)
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It is the man with the growth beneath his chin, a thing with a life of its own, embryonic and pulsing.† (source)embryonic = of an organism in the early stages of development prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting OR of anything in an early stage of development
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In the firelight, they looked pale and embryonic—a pack of skeletal, ravenous ghouls.† (source)
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How vividly there still lingers on my palate the suety aftertaste of the Salisbury steak at Bickford's, or Riker's western omelette, in which one night, nearly swooning, I found a greenish, almost incorporeal feather and a tiny embryonic beak.† (source)
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The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3.† (source)
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It was at this time that he began to invite the parties of men of which Miss Goldfield told Quentin, out to Sutpen's Hundred to camp in blankets in the naked rooms of his embryonic formal opulence; they hunted, and at night played cards and drank, and on occasion he doubtless pitted his negroes against one another and perhaps even at this time participated now and then himself—that spectacle which, according to Miss Coldfield, his son was unable to bear the sight of while his daughter looked on unmoved.† (source)
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The human embryo lay there crouched and cowering, it had a tail— and with its monstrous abdomen, stubby shapeless extremities, and larval face bent down over a bloated belly, it was indistinguishable from an embryonic pig.† (source)
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The embryonic work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy.† (source)
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Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when there was one), and mingled their shade with the steep roofs of desultory Dutch houses, and where pigs and chickens disported themselves in the gutter.† (source)
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Following a ruckus of flopping slices, overflowing two-liter bottles of soda, and bumping chairs, everyone settles in, munching away, for the first official meeting of MIT's Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science, acronyficiently called MIT MITES-as in embryonic MITers, soon to be born.† (source)
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I even envisioned a tiny embryonic Superman whom Nathan might be concocting at Pfizer, an inch-high square-jawed homunculus complete with cape and "S" emblazoned on his breast, ready to leap to his place in the color pages of Life as another miraculous artifact of our age.† (source)
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