gestate

Example Sentences

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“This is the continuation of a long gestating effort to remove this sheriff from office.”

From Seattle Times

SZA also decided that, to fully gestate “SOS,” she needed to shed her dependencies.

From Los Angeles Times

“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

But when they arrived, the doctors said the baby needed more time to gestate and refused to induce Lilya early.

From Los Angeles Times

The two symphonies here demonstrated the Great Man’s enormous transformation in the 24 years between their premieres, but also how much of his late style was gestating in his youth.

From New York Times