gestating
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"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
He had in him the same quality she felt gestating within herself.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
