incubate

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Jackie and Shadow will now take turns carefully incubating the egg for the next 35 days or so, ensuring it is kept warm and safe.

From Los Angeles Times

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

To address that gap, Huss and colleagues compared two sets of bacterial E. coli samples infected with a phage known as T7 -- one set incubated on Earth and the other aboard the International Space Station.

From Science Daily

And he shows how Music Inn incubated a “Third Stream” hybrid of jazz and classical music through the work of the composer Gunther Schuller and others at the Lenox School of Jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet the festival, the labs and the institute have remained a constant through it all, continuing to incubate fresh talent to launch to the industry.

From Los Angeles Times