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gestate

[jes-teyt] / ˈdʒɛs teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
enceinte
Synonyms


VERB
conceptualize
Synonyms


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If “The Moment” had more time to gestate, it would likely be a much sharper and shocking satire.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2024

They will then try to create an embryo carrying that modified DNA that could gestate in an African elephant “surrogate” or an artificial uterus.

From Scientific American Aug. 16, 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

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

From The Brain by Alexander Blade

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

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

“Jiggle Jiggle” gestated for years before it became all the rage.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2022

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 Clarence Budington Kelland

"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

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

Yet the Garden was ignorantly sleeping every night and the women's wombs, like the earth, grew heavy with fruits, gestating full-season.

From Poems and Tales from Romania by Simona Sumanaru




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