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
New work takes time to gestate, and already this play has left a haunting mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
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
“Even if we got it genetically perfect, we are still going to have to gestate it in a different species, so why would you think it would be exactly the same?”
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 9, 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
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
Mr. Hastings said the executive reorganization was part of a long-in-the-making succession plan that gestated over several years.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 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
In her womb they were gestated and formed.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
"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
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
I worried about the health of my baby, and what it was doing to her to be gestating with a mother who was so sick and so sad.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2024
The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
He had in him the same quality she felt gestating within herself.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
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