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incubator

[in-kyuh-bay-ter, ing-] / ˈɪn kjəˌbeɪ tər, ˈɪŋ- /
NOUN
hatchery
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Gilt was an incubator of sorts for female founders, Wilson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Garry Tan, who runs the startup incubator Y Combinator, is among the loudest of those voices, casting safety-driven regulation as a threat to the small companies that cannot absorb its costs.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

It, too, considers only fetal outcomes, reducing the woman to the same thing existing guidance does: a baby incubator.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

However, keepers moved the egg to an incubator after Frank incorrectly positioned the egg between himself and French.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Epsilon-5 sets his sample in the incubator and returns.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

"It really can act as incubators of new ideas."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The babies in the ward were either in incubators or hooked on oxygen equipment, Pakistan's Health Minister Mustafa Kamal told Geo News.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in the wild, zoos typically hatch them in carefully controlled incubators, closely monitoring the temperature and humidity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Researchers believe that it first arrived with military equipment and tires shipped back from the continent following World War II. Tires make excellent mosquito incubators.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley


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