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

“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

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

But I don’t believe Seattle should proceed with a proposal that’s gestating to create news vouchers, modeled on the city’s $30 million democracy voucher program.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Yet the Garden was ignorantly sleeping every night and the women's wombs, like the earth, grew heavy with fruits, gestating full-season.

From Poems and Tales from Romania by Sumanaru, Simona