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
Sheep typically gestate for about 5 months; the lambs that the researchers used were the equivalent of a human fetus at 23 weeks of gestation.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2023
And with smaller indie venues unable to compete for big-name talent, they’re less likely to take chances on sparsely attended scenes that need time to gestate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 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
Woman is not only the creative agency for building bodies, but the perfecting agency to build character, and to gestate and bring to birth the higher nature in humanity.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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
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
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 Clarence Budington Kelland
"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
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
He had in him the same quality she felt gestating within herself.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
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