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

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

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

Woman is not only the creative agency for building bodies, but the perfecting agency to build character, and to gestate and bring to birth the higher nature in humanity.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

They gestated 36 weeks, a good time for triplets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

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 her womb they were gestated and formed.

From Time and Change by John Burroughs

"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

“Burt,” his second feature, was shot over seven days for $7,000, though the project had been gestating for seven years by the time cameras rolled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

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

One might almost say it was a result rather than a reserve; the result of a something hard at work within; a preoccupying something; a gestating something, the offspring of which was—well—what he was.

From Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway by James Bayard Clark