gestating

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"The kicker is within two or three days of giving birth, they fall pregnant again so while they're rearing the first litter, they're gestating the second," Henry says.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

These duplicitous celebrities, so the rumor mill grinds, have hired mysterious surrogates to do their gestating work.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

As you might expect, Rebeck has more work on the horizon — plenty of rewrites and updates on plays already gestating, and a new musical she is birthing with Cyndi Lauper.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2023

Long before the emergence of a winged protagonist who transports powerful orbs across the mysterious landscape of Cocoon, the adventure video game was an abstract computer science exercise gestating in its creator’s head.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2023

What must be the effect, long continued, of this class of jugglers working upon the sympathies and the imagination of a nation of gestating women?

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John