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

California sea lions typically give birth in June after an 11-month gestation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025

Aviation is a business with a very long gestation time for a product.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2025

An award-winning Palestinian American writer tackles subjects including home, displacement and gestation in this lyrical memoir that explores the trauma of fractured identity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 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