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
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
SZA also decided that, to fully gestate “SOS,” she needed to shed her dependencies.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023
“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 • Mar. 9, 2022
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)
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