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fledgling
[ flej-ling ]
adjective
- young, new, or inexperienced:
a fledgling diver.
fledgling
/ ˈڱɛɪŋ /
noun
- a young bird that has just fledged
- a young and inexperienced or untried person, organization or system
fledgling
- A young bird that has just grown the feathers needed to fly and is capable of surviving outside the nest.
Word History and Origins
Origin of fledgling1
Example Sentences
It was still a fledgling career path at the time.
The Flock cameras, he said, are not totally compatible with the LAPD’s systems, including the department’s fledgling real-time crime center, which monitors intelligence gathered from around the city.
When they were allowed to return 38 days later, villagers said, they found their homes ransacked and half destroyed, and the fledgling signs of a permanent Israeli presence.
Analysts say that punishing anyone from factions fighting alongside the government could trigger a wide-scale insurrection — a potentially deadly blow to a fledgling government relying on those groups to secure its grip of the country.
And because pollution is no respecter of ZIP codes, this fledgling environmental justice movement energized other parts of L.A. too.
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