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gestation

[je-stey-shuhn] / dʒɛˈsteɪ ʃən /


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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

The Saers had five years of fertility struggles, which included losing their unborn baby, Elsie, at 14 weeks' gestation on Christmas Eve in 2011.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 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

“Did you know that bovines have a typical gestation period of approximately two hundred and eighty-three days?”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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