gestate

New work takes time to gestate, and already this play has left a haunting mark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

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

Sheep typically gestate for about 5 months; the lambs that the researchers used were the equivalent of a human fetus at 23 weeks of gestation.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023

“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

Thus preparing the upper crust of our earth as a "placenta" ready to gestate plant and animal life.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander

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

Brown began researching robots and robotics, and slowly the story gestated in his mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

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

It is the labored working of the mass, and the working of the mass brings forth and casts up fanatics, reformers, leaders, when it has gestated them and prepared the way for their birth.

From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington

"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

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

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

From Time and Change by Burroughs, John