incubate

We’ve watched it incubate in this country since Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

He’d helped incubate and grow businesses such as Blaze Pizza and Wetzel’s Pretzels with his business partner, Phelps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

Fecal samples from the children were exposed to several levels of BPA and allowed to incubate for 3 days.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 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

The male incubates the eggs for up to two months and looks after the hatchlings.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

Stockton also incubates eggs and cares for the turtles in the first year of their lives.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

Many people on the ship may have been infected before the quarantine began and could be showing symptoms now, as the disease incubates.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2020

Leprosy incubates slowly, affecting the skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes and peripheral nerves.

From Nature ● Mar. 3, 2019

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

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

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

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

She used a pair of electrodes to deliver an 80-millisecond electric pulse to some samples, then incubated all the cells for 12 hours.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

The longer she incubated, the more deeply she went into the trance of incubation.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“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

Dorset's much-loved ospreys are incubating another bumper clutch of four eggs and all eyes are on their nest cam, waiting for the first chick to appear.

From BBC ● May 2, 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

He returned to the label world with stints at Elektra/Asylum and Casblanca but pivoted to management, incubating a proto-punk scene that would yield influential L.A. acts like the Cramps, the Blasters and the Heaters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

He’d traveled around the Midwest on a summer rec-league team that featured an incubating superstar named Isaiah Thomas, who would later go on to a Hall of Fame career in the NBA.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama