incubate

While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in the wild, zoos typically hatch them in carefully controlled incubators, closely monitoring the temperature and humidity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

He said there should be an emphasis on "preserving natural field which provides habitat for insects, bugs, moths and caterpillars that need to incubate underground there."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

We’ve watched it incubate in this country since Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

He’d helped incubate and grow businesses such as Blaze Pizza and Wetzel’s Pretzels with his business partner, Phelps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025

The shells of her eggs would be thin and eventually smash when she tried to incubate them.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

For more than 70 years, most annual flu vaccines have come from a manufacturing process that incubates the virus in chicken eggs.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

The male incubates the eggs for up to two months and looks after the hatchlings.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

Nothing incubates bad behavior better than the unconscious good behavior of people invested in creating a facade of togetherness.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2022

Leprosy incubates slowly, affecting the skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes and peripheral nerves.

From Nature ● Mar. 3, 2019

The emergence of hiv was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The e-bike startup, called Also, was incubated within Rivian before launching publicly last year with a $3,500 flagship product.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

It sees vulnerable curlew nests taken from the wild and artificially incubated.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

In certain species, eggs incubated in cooler environments hatch into male turtles while warmer environments produce females, potentially skewing an entire generation.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

The longer she incubated, the more deeply she went into the trance of incubation.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Soil was a metaphor for the growth we were incubating in our lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“We are now taking the foundry part of what we had been incubating and creating that as a resource” for the U.S. government, he said.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

Both pairs have since rebuilt their nests in slightly higher locations and are incubating fresh clutches of eggs.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

Curiously, DDT did not kill the birds outright, but rather caused their eggshells to collapse under the weight of the incubating adults.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

Or is passion indiscriminate, incubating haphazardly like a cancer?

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García