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gestate

[jes-tayt] / ˈdʒɛs teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
enceinte
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VERB
conceptualize
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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

Fujii said female otters gestate for about six months and then keep their young for another six months before weaning them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

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

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

In Dallas, an idea to build a park over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway gestated for decades.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019

All may have spirits, from the lowest to the highest, holding the same relations to the body in which it is gestated as the spirit of man holds to his physical form.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle

"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

These tools also allow women tasked with gestating children, caring for infants, and doing housework to not be completely consumed by it.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2026

While this project is slowly gestating, two prominent showrunners float Kaplan’s name as a supervising producer for their new show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

What must be the effect, long continued, of this class of jugglers working upon the sympathies and the imagination of a nation of gestating women?

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs


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