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Germinating...
intransitive verb
Definition
- 1
intransitive verb
Beginning, in the dark and under the surface, to become a thing that will one day have leaves.
- 2
intransitive verb
Of a plan: existing only as the first stirrings, with everything after still to come.
Example
“Germinating the proof of concept.”— Claude Code, at first sprout