gestating

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"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

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

While this project is slowly gestating, two prominent showrunners float Kaplan’s name as a supervising producer for their new show.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024

But I don’t believe Seattle should proceed with a proposal that’s gestating to create news vouchers, modeled on the city’s $30 million democracy voucher program.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Yet the Garden was ignorantly sleeping every night and the women's wombs, like the earth, grew heavy with fruits, gestating full-season.

From Poems and Tales from Romania by Sumanaru, Simona