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incubate

[in-kyuh-beyt, ing-] / ˈɪn kjəˌbeɪt, ˈɪŋ- /
VERB
hatch
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He said it was "clearly impossible at the moment" for the protests "not to incubate within them some sort of antisemitic or demonising language".

From BBC May 2, 2026

We’ve watched it incubate in this country since Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

They created PDA in 2022 as a place to incubate their work, not knowing the vast community they would draw in almost instantly.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 16, 2025

He stayed back to incubate the egg while Wisdom headed back to sea for a time, researchers said.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2024

The shells of her eggs would be thin and eventually smash when she tried to incubate them.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The male incubates the eggs for up to two months and looks after the hatchlings.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2024

Stockton also incubates eggs and cares for the turtles in the first year of their lives.

From Seattle Times Jun. 8, 2022

Talking does not just reflect thinking, but shapes it, too, or — to use a favorite Beckerman word — incubates it.

From Washington Post Feb. 18, 2022

Leprosy incubates slowly, affecting the skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes and peripheral nerves.

From Nature Mar. 3, 2019

The emergence of hiv was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Blessed with natural athleticism, Malinin has also been incubated in the perfect training environment.

From BBC Feb. 10, 2026

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

It was fitting that the dogfight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2024

She used a pair of electrodes to deliver an 80-millisecond electric pulse to some samples, then incubated all the cells for 12 hours.

From Science Daily Apr. 30, 2024

The longer she incubated, the more deeply she went into the trance of incubation.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“We are now taking the foundry part of what we had been incubating and creating that as a resource” for the U.S. government, he said.

From MarketWatch May 22, 2026

Curiously, DDT did not kill the birds outright, but rather caused their eggshells to collapse under the weight of the incubating adults.

From Slate Feb. 21, 2026

It’s not clear why the doting parents were both absent, “but we are sure they had their reasons as they have been incubating the eggs faithfully,” the nonprofit wrote in its “Eagle Log.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 2, 2026

"We do generally think that both males and females take care of incubating the egg, and they also take care of feeding the chick."

From Salon May 11, 2025

Or is passion indiscriminate, incubating haphazardly like a cancer?

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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