gestating
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"The kicker is within two or three days of giving birth, they fall pregnant again so while they're rearing the first litter, they're gestating the second," Henry says.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
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
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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
