gestate
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If “The Moment” had more time to gestate, it would likely be a much sharper and shocking satire.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026
Mothers not only gestate us and grant us introduction to life, but they can keep giving it to us throughout their years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2022
Is he not justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man?
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
Latifi, who gestated the book alongside her firstborn, argues that becoming an influencer is the modern pitch to mothers that they can raise a family without sacrificing their careers.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
While Johnson had been invited to record closer-to-home before, it took his comfort and confidence in his collaborators to get him to finally cut these songs that gestated over neighborhood walks and late-night guitar-tinkering sessions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
“Malignant” first gestated when Wan and Bisu, who are married, started bouncing around an idea of hers while at home with their dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
In Dallas, an idea to build a park over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway gestated for decades.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
In her womb they were gestated and formed.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
"The kicker is within two or three days of giving birth, they fall pregnant again so while they're rearing the first litter, they're gestating the second," Henry says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
The couple posed for photos at the event, drawing attention to their gestating bundle of joy by framing and caressing Palvin’s belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
These tools also allow women tasked with gestating children, caring for infants, and doing housework to not be completely consumed by it.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026
As you might expect, Rebeck has more work on the horizon — plenty of rewrites and updates on plays already gestating, and a new musical she is birthing with Cyndi Lauper.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
He had in him the same quality she felt gestating within herself.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
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