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gestate

[jes-teyt] / ˈdʒɛs teɪt /
ADJECTIVE
enceinte
Synonyms


VERB
conceptualize
Synonyms


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If “The Moment” had more time to gestate, it would likely be a much sharper and shocking satire.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

Mothers not only gestate us and grant us introduction to life, but they can keep giving it to us throughout their years.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 2023

Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.

From Scientific American May 17, 2022

“Even if we got it genetically perfect, we are still going to have to gestate it in a different species, so why would you think it would be exactly the same?”

From Science Magazine Mar. 9, 2022

We're fighting for time—time for Charlie and his gang to crack the puzzle, time for the Grdznth girls to gestate.

From PRoblem by Alan Edward Nourse

They gestated 36 weeks, a good time for triplets.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

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

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

In a speculative riff on the future of the womb, Hazard talks to a biolaw professor who imagines a world in which fetuses could be gestated outside the body in mechanical “biobags.”

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2023

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

These duplicitous celebrities, so the rumor mill grinds, have hired mysterious surrogates to do their gestating work.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2025

“Burt,” his second feature, was shot over seven days for $7,000, though the project had been gestating for seven years by the time cameras rolled.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2025

As you might expect, Rebeck has more work on the horizon — plenty of rewrites and updates on plays already gestating, and a new musical she is birthing with Cyndi Lauper.

From Seattle Times Oct. 12, 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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