gestating
Example Sentences
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These duplicitous celebrities, so the rumor mill grinds, have hired mysterious surrogates to do their gestating work.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
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
A less-heralded entry is another adaptation — Prime Video’s gender-swapped “Dead Ringers,” which could be carried into contention by Rachel Weisz’s dazzling lead performances as twin gynecologists in whom madness is gestating.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2023
“This is the continuation of a long gestating effort to remove this sheriff from office.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 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)
