gestation
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This is due to funds under management rolling out of gestation and becoming fee earning, as well as organic net inflows and operational efficiencies, BofA says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Before the new law went into effect, the state allowed for abortions up to 15 weeks of gestation.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
Mifepristone, which prevents pregnancy progression, and misoprostol, which empties the uterus, are approved to terminate a pregnancy up to 70 days of gestation in the United States.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
The Saers had five years of fertility struggles, which included losing their unborn baby, Elsie, at 14 weeks' gestation on Christmas Eve in 2011.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
I took new interest in the torpedo-fish with their crackling shocks; in the turtles that paced beside yardsticks; in the mice sliced end to end, that their gestation might be viewed.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
“Potentially, those gestations that would have ended in fetal death in 2021 were born alive in 2022 and then died shortly after,” Ms. Gemmill said in an interview.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
A 2018 review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that abortion medication ended pregnancies 96.7 percent of the time in gestations of up to nine weeks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2022
For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2021
The researchers who do this work say it would be impossible to use this technology with babies younger than about 21 weeks—and that pushing to earlier gestations is not their goal.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2020
On the other hand, I know of three well-authenticated instances of immunity in a sweeping epidemic of persons whose mothers had suffered attacks during the gestations which respectively resulted in their births.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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