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
Fujii said female otters gestate for about six months and then keep their young for another six months before weaning them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2022
Thus preparing the upper crust of our earth as a "placenta" ready to gestate plant and animal life.
From The Brain by Alexander Blade
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
Active labor: delivery of a fully gestated person who’s coming out of the womb, viable, at the end of pregnancy.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2024
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
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
These duplicitous celebrities, so the rumor mill grinds, have hired mysterious surrogates to do their gestating work.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
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
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
Never tempt me to write, for while the thing is gestating I am a brute, moody, irritable, unhappy.
From The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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