Vocabulary
Fledgling
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Someone or something that is getting started in a new activity
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But, then, how does this disastrous and constitutionally untenable `hybrid model` keep returning and upstaging a fledgling democracy?
- But the deeper damage may hit the country`s fledgling AI and tech development ecosystem.
- Handing over millions of acres of land to a fledgling private company with no proven track record has triggered political unrest.
- Handing over millions of acres of land to a fledgling private company with no proven track record has triggered political unrest.
- Our course correction became due in the 1950s, when our fledgling democracy`s core functions first began to slip from the hands of an embattled body of politicians to a well-organised military-bureaucratic power base.
Synonyms
Newbie, Colt, Cub
Antonyms
Old hand, pro, professional
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