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gestate

[jes-teyt] / ˈdʒɛs teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
enceinte
Synonyms


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

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

“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

The girls can't gestate in that climate, at least not until they've been there long enough to get their glands adjusted.

From PRoblem by Alan Edward Nourse

They gestated 36 weeks, a good time for triplets.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

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

In Dallas, an idea to build a park over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway gestated for decades.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2019

In her womb they were gestated and formed.

From Time and Change by John Burroughs

"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

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

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

Seems we have just the right climate here for gestating Grdznth, even better than at home.

From PRoblem by Alan Edward Nourse




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