gestating

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

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

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

As you might expect, Rebeck has more work on the horizon — plenty of rewrites and updates on plays already gestating, and a new musical she is birthing with Cyndi Lauper.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 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

He sees them gestating in the womb of their mother, the sea.

From Time and Change by Burroughs, John