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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gestate.

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Examples

  • And it was a forum. [laughter] A lot of people of my generation of comics creators, writers and artists both, kind of gestated there.

    Comics Comics Joe McCulloch 2010

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We were supposed to be all wrapped up in Kyle's otherworldly origins -- turned out his lack of bellybutton, his overdeveloped brain, his lack of social smarts, and his fledgling powers of flight / levitation / etc. all resulted from being "gestated" in a pod for 17 years.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • We became great friends, and Val and I began to see the incredibly warm and caring side that she exhibited to people she had not gestated.

    Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me Eric Poole 2011

  • We became great friends, and Val and I began to see the incredibly warm and caring side that she exhibited to people she had not gestated.

    Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me Eric Poole 2011

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