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
Mothers not only gestate us and grant us introduction to life, but they can keep giving it to us throughout their years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
Is he not justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man?
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still
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
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
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
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
On Saturday, Mysterio is scheduled to take on his son Dominik in a long gestating feud that reads as an homage to Guerrero’s “When Worlds Collide” story line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
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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