gestate
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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
Active labor: delivery of a fully gestated person who’s coming out of the womb, viable, at the end of pregnancy.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2024
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 Kelland, Clarence Budington
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