gestate

Example Sentences

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“This is the continuation of a long gestating effort to remove this sheriff from office.”

From Seattle Times

SZA also decided that, to fully gestate “SOS,” she needed to shed her dependencies.

From Los Angeles Times

Consequently, the court has now granted permission to states to force pregnant people to gestate against their will.

From Salon

That said, no one on this green planet ever envisioned an abortion industry that would proudly defend the destruction of 40 million to 50 million gestating human beings.

From Washington Post

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.

From New York Times