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

Female maned wolves are only fertile for approximately five days a year, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo, and have a gestation period of 65 days.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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

With Fermi’s chain-reacting pile still undergoing its difficult gestation, for all they knew this was the only plutonium that would be seen for months, or even years.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik