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
California sea lions typically give birth in June after an 11-month gestation.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
"I'd have to sneak into swimming pools to have a shower," they recall, "but that was really a time of gestation and discovering my voice."
From BBC • May 30, 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
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