gestation

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This change was made permanent in 2022, so women can take pills at home for gestation of up to nine weeks and six days.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

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

An award-winning Palestinian American writer tackles subjects including home, displacement and gestation in this lyrical memoir that explores the trauma of fractured identity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 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