gestation
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The company says its product, which works solely with bovine breath samples, has detected gestation with 94% accuracy in lab tests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Was the gestation period so long that Hawke and Kaplow, the movie’s other Oscar nominee this year, occasionally wondered, “Will this ever happen?”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
RSV immunizations are recommended for everyone age 75 and up, babies younger than 8 months, and pregnant women between 32 weeks to 36 weeks of gestation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
It turns out the song had a troubled gestation as the pressure of following up Raye's Mercury Prize-nominated album 21st Century Blues hit home.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
As a fat man, I walked with the foot soldiers so as not to jounce the gestation.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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