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incubate

[in-kyuh-beyt, ing-] / ˈɪn kjəˌbeɪt, ˈɪŋ- /
VERB
hatch
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We’ve watched it incubate in this country since Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

Yet the festival, the labs and the institute have remained a constant through it all, continuing to incubate fresh talent to launch to the industry.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 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

By contrast, she says the A$13.7bn set aside to process critical minerals and incubate Australia’s nascent green hydrogen industry “isn’t real money”.

From BBC Jun. 4, 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

Stockton also incubates eggs and cares for the turtles in the first year of their lives.

From Seattle Times Jun. 8, 2022

Talking does not just reflect thinking, but shapes it, too, or — to use a favorite Beckerman word — incubates it.

From Washington Post Feb. 18, 2022

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

And he shows how Music Inn incubated a “Third Stream” hybrid of jazz and classical music through the work of the composer Gunther Schuller and others at the Lenox School of Jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

In certain species, eggs incubated in cooler environments hatch into male turtles while warmer environments produce females, potentially skewing an entire generation.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

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

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

The team have been "headstarting" the birds, Perkins explained, by taking in eggs from wild nests and incubating and raising them in specially-constructed pens.

From BBC Jul. 17, 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

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

Something there triggered the unfolding of those parts that had been incubating.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg




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