gestate
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If “The Moment” had more time to gestate, it would likely be a much sharper and shocking satire.
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
SZA also decided that, to fully gestate “SOS,” she needed to shed her dependencies.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2022
Thus preparing the upper crust of our earth as a "placenta" ready to gestate plant and animal life.
From The Brain by Blade, Alexander
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