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
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
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
Thus preparing the upper crust of our earth as a "placenta" ready to gestate plant and animal life.
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander
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
“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
Another strong contender for Art Basel Jr. is the Untitled fair, whose galleries’ offerings tend to be a bit more thoughtfully gestated than much of NADA’s throw-it-all-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks aesthetic.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2019
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
The couple posed for photos at the event, drawing attention to their gestating bundle of joy by framing and caressing Palvin’s belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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
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 Phillips, David Graham
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