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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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fledgling1
Example Sentences
The region was just beginning to attract fledgling business investments, but those too could dry up if hostilities go up.
He talked to anyone in the fledgling government he could find, but all appeared perplexed why he was reaching out to them in the first place.
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.
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