incubate

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

This trend ought to inspire companies across the nation, reminding them that they too can incubate work of the highest level for our most prominent stages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

Fecal samples from the children were exposed to several levels of BPA and allowed to incubate for 3 days.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 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

The male incubates the eggs for up to two months and looks after the hatchlings.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

Nothing incubates bad behavior better than the unconscious good behavior of people invested in creating a facade of togetherness.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2022

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

McLeod’s startup was incubated at Hinge, and Match Group, which owns Tinder and Hinge, is an investor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Chairman of the Sliabh Beagh Curlew Conservation Trust Dr John Cusack said the eggs were incubated for just under four weeks.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Researchers in Taiwan combined heat transfer simulations with physical experiments to better understand how these dinosaurs incubated their eggs.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 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

We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

Curiously, DDT did not kill the birds outright, but rather caused their eggshells to collapse under the weight of the incubating adults.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2026

The resentments incubating in each man hatched into hatred.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller