gestation
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The company says its product, which works solely with bovine breath samples, has detected gestation with 94% accuracy in lab tests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
It turns out the song had a troubled gestation as the pressure of following up Raye's Mercury Prize-nominated album 21st Century Blues hit home.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
Very young babies rely on antibodies acquired during gestation and herd immunity to protect them from measles, which killed roughly 400 children every year in the U.S. before the combined MMR vaccine’s introduction in 1971.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025
California sea lions typically give birth in June after an 11-month gestation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
His will, it turned out, was that Emily give birth at home at twenty-six weeks’ gestation.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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