gestate

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024

It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 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

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Is he not justified in the conclusion that the nerves do gestate and send forth all substances that are applied by nature in the construction of man?

From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)