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gestate

[jes-teyt] / ˈdʒɛs teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
enceinte
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VERB
conceptualize
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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2023

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.

From New York Times Jul. 7, 2022

Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.

From Scientific American May 17, 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 Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)

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

“Malignant” first gestated when Wan and Bisu, who are married, started bouncing around an idea of hers while at home with their dogs.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2021

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

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

But I don’t believe Seattle should proceed with a proposal that’s gestating to create news vouchers, modeled on the city’s $30 million democracy voucher program.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn




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