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

Was the gestation period so long that Hawke and Kaplow, the movie’s other Oscar nominee this year, occasionally wondered, “Will this ever happen?”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Female maned wolves are only fertile for approximately five days a year, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo, and have a gestation period of 65 days.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 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

Instead, it is usually preceded by a long gestation period in which all the hard work is done without finding the key to the solution to the problem.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson