gestating

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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

But the movie’s thoughts about pain and devotion and locker-room manipulation are still gestating.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

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

This is the center that drew the gestating maternal blood-stream upon you, in the nine-months lurking, drew it on you for your increase.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)