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

As female cicadas lay eggs that gestate for the next 13 or 17 years, it can cause short-term damage to some trees and shrubs.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2024

New work takes time to gestate, and already this play has left a haunting mark.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024

Sheep typically gestate for about 5 months; the lambs that the researchers used were the equivalent of a human fetus at 23 weeks of gestation.

From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2023

Woman is not only the creative agency for building bodies, but the perfecting agency to build character, and to gestate and bring to birth the higher nature in humanity.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)