gestate
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New work takes time to gestate, and already this play has left a haunting mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 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
Thus preparing the upper crust of our earth as a "placenta" ready to gestate plant and animal life.
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander
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
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
"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 duplicitous celebrities, so the rumor mill grinds, have hired mysterious surrogates to do their gestating work.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
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
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
He sees them gestating in the womb of their mother, the sea.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
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