gestate
Example Sentences
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“This is the continuation of a long gestating effort to remove this sheriff from office.”
From Seattle Times
SZA also decided that, to fully gestate “SOS,” she needed to shed her dependencies.
From Los Angeles Times
“Even if we got it genetically perfect, we are still going to have to gestate it in a different species, so why would you think it would be exactly the same?”
From Science Magazine
During the time in between, I would kind of imagine what the music would be like and gestate those ideas.
From New York Times
“Malignant” first gestated when Wan and Bisu, who are married, started bouncing around an idea of hers while at home with their dogs.
From Los Angeles Times
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