gestation

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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

This rebellion has been a long time in gestation.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

California sea lions typically give birth in June after an 11-month gestation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray