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All seven eggs were safely recovered and Blakesley took them home to incubate.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

He’d helped incubate and grow businesses such as Blaze Pizza and Wetzel’s Pretzels with his business partner, Phelps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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

And their seemingly haphazard jumble is purposeful, reminding us that this is not a temple but a workshop, a place of ongoing activity in which new and experimental art is incubated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Flamingo eggs hatch after a period of about 28 days, where they are incubated on mud pile nests by both parents.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

Average-size eggs exposed to traffic sounds were about 12% less likely to hatch compared with those incubated in silence.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

The idea to explore information overload was incubated in a meeting of an international group of scientists two years ago, all of whom were supported by an E.U. grant for international collaboration.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 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

He’d traveled around the Midwest on a summer rec-league team that featured an incubating superstar named Isaiah Thomas, who would later go on to a Hall of Fame career in the NBA.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama