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gestation

[je-stey-shuhn] / dʒɛˈsteɪ ʃən /


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This is due to funds under management rolling out of gestation and becoming fee earning, as well as organic net inflows and operational efficiencies, BofA says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Before the new law went into effect, the state allowed for abortions up to 15 weeks of gestation.

From Salon May 5, 2026

Mifepristone, which prevents pregnancy progression, and misoprostol, which empties the uterus, are approved to terminate a pregnancy up to 70 days of gestation in the United States.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

Was the gestation period so long that Hawke and Kaplow, the movie’s other Oscar nominee this year, occasionally wondered, “Will this ever happen?”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 10, 2026

“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

“Potentially, those gestations that would have ended in fetal death in 2021 were born alive in 2022 and then died shortly after,” Ms. Gemmill said in an interview.

From Washington Times Nov. 8, 2023

A 2018 review by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that abortion medication ended pregnancies 96.7 percent of the time in gestations of up to nine weeks.

From New York Times Aug. 7, 2022

For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.

From Science Magazine Dec. 2, 2021

The researchers who do this work say it would be impossible to use this technology with babies younger than about 21 weeks—and that pushing to earlier gestations is not their goal.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2020

On the other hand, I know of three well-authenticated instances of immunity in a sweeping epidemic of persons whose mothers had suffered attacks during the gestations which respectively resulted in their births.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various




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