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

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

Very young babies rely on antibodies acquired during gestation and herd immunity to protect them from measles, which killed roughly 400 children every year in the U.S. before the combined MMR vaccine’s introduction in 1971.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

I took new interest in the torpedo-fish with their crackling shocks; in the turtles that paced beside yardsticks; in the mice sliced end to end, that their gestation might be viewed.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson