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

Collectively, those records helped catapult the sounds gestating in Seattle clubs for years into the pop culture consciousness, making our Upper Left city the rock ’n’ roll capital of the world for a time.

From Seattle Times

It was a classic pyramid scheme, even if cleverly dressed up in language about women's natural ability to generate abundance, just as we gestate children in our miraculous wombs.

From Salon