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While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in the wild, zoos typically hatch them in carefully controlled incubators, closely monitoring the temperature and humidity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

He said there should be an emphasis on "preserving natural field which provides habitat for insects, bugs, moths and caterpillars that need to incubate underground there."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

We’ve watched it incubate in this country since Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

He stayed back to incubate the egg while Wisdom headed back to sea for a time, researchers said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

The shells of her eggs would be thin and eventually smash when she tried to incubate them.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

For more than 70 years, most annual flu vaccines have come from a manufacturing process that incubates the virus in chicken eggs.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops," he says in the video.

From BBC ● May 9, 2023

He’s among the public health authorities fearing the delta variant will morph into something worse as it incubates and spreads.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2021

Leprosy incubates slowly, affecting the skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes and peripheral nerves.

From Nature ● Mar. 3, 2019

The emergence of hiv was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University is leading breakthroughs in medical and offshore robotics, having incubated 14 companies in its first few years.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

It was fitting that the dogfight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

She used a pair of electrodes to deliver an 80-millisecond electric pulse to some samples, then incubated all the cells for 12 hours.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

The longer she incubated, the more deeply she went into the trance of incubation.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Soil was a metaphor for the growth we were incubating in our lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

“We are now taking the foundry part of what we had been incubating and creating that as a resource” for the U.S. government, he said.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

Dorset's much-loved ospreys are incubating another bumper clutch of four eggs and all eyes are on their nest cam, waiting for the first chick to appear.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Parents take turns incubating the egg, which is highly sensitive to temperature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

I close my eyes and see Frightful incubating her eggs.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George