gestate
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New work takes time to gestate, and already this play has left a haunting mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024
They will then try to create an embryo carrying that modified DNA that could gestate in an African elephant “surrogate” or an artificial uterus.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2022
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
Woman is not only the creative agency for building bodies, but the perfecting agency to build character, and to gestate and bring to birth the higher nature in humanity.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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
“Malignant” first gestated when Wan and Bisu, who are married, started bouncing around an idea of hers while at home with their dogs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
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
I worried about the health of my baby, and what it was doing to her to be gestating with a mother who was so sick and so sad.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2024
The ruling, treating an embryo the same as a child or gestating fetus under the wrongful death statute, raised concerns about civil liabilities for clinics.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
Long before the emergence of a winged protagonist who transports powerful orbs across the mysterious landscape of Cocoon, the adventure video game was an abstract computer science exercise gestating in its creator’s head.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
This is the center that drew the gestating maternal blood-stream upon you, in the nine-months lurking, drew it on you for your increase.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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