gestate
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It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024
Mothers not only gestate us and grant us introduction to life, but they can keep giving it to us throughout their years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2022
“Even if we got it genetically perfect, we are still going to have to gestate it in a different species, so why would you think it would be exactly the same?”
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 9, 2022
We're fighting for time—time for Charlie and his gang to crack the puzzle, time for the Grdznth girls to gestate.
From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward
Latifi, who gestated the book alongside her firstborn, argues that becoming an influencer is the modern pitch to mothers that they can raise a family without sacrificing their careers.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
Active labor: delivery of a fully gestated person who’s coming out of the womb, viable, at the end of pregnancy.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2024
While Johnson had been invited to record closer-to-home before, it took his comfort and confidence in his collaborators to get him to finally cut these songs that gestated over neighborhood walks and late-night guitar-tinkering sessions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
In a speculative riff on the future of the womb, Hazard talks to a biolaw professor who imagines a world in which fetuses could be gestated outside the body in mechanical “biobags.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
In her womb they were gestated and formed.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
"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
The couple posed for photos at the event, drawing attention to their gestating bundle of joy by framing and caressing Palvin’s belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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
The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
He sees them gestating in the womb of their mother, the sea.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
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