gestate
Example Sentences
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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
We're fighting for time—time for Charlie and his gang to crack the puzzle, time for the Grdznth girls to gestate.
From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.