incubate
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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
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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
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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
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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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