gestate
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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
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
We're fighting for time—time for Charlie and his gang to crack the puzzle, time for the Grdznth girls to gestate.
From PRoblem by Alan Edward Nourse
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
She experiences profound emotional touchstones, like relinquishing the triplets she gestated for her half brother, but also gets the most granular attributes of the six.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
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
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
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
Never tempt me to write, for while the thing is gestating I am a brute, moody, irritable, unhappy.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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