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gestating

ADJECTIVE
gravid
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating big carrying a child childbearing enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful heavy hopeful in a family way in family way parous parturient preggers productive prolific replete teeming with ch
ADJECTIVE
in the family way
Synonyms
WEAK
anticipating carrying expecting heavy with child knocked-up with child
ADJECTIVE
parturient
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating big carrying a child enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gravid heavy hopeful in a family way in family way parous preggers productive prolific replete teeming with child
ADJECTIVE
pregnant
Synonyms
WEAK
abundant anticipating carrying a child childbearing enceinte expectant expecting fecund fertile fraught fruitful gravid heavy hopeful in family way parous parturient preggers productive prolific replete teeming with child

Example Sentences

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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

I worried about the health of my baby, and what it was doing to her to be gestating with a mother who was so sick and so sad.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 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

Long before the emergence of a winged protagonist who transports powerful orbs across the mysterious landscape of Cocoon, the adventure video game was an abstract computer science exercise gestating in its creator’s head.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2023

But she is gestating, and gestation with her is always perturbing.

From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus