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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gestate.

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Examples

  • Pelvic boundaries mark the sacred space where a woman gestates her creations.

    Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011

  • Pelvic boundaries mark the sacred space where a woman gestates her creations.

    Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011

  • Passion gestates over several encounters so ensure there are a few “near misses” and lost opportunities.

    Sex Scenes on Paper « Write Anything 2009

  • By contrast, a mammal foetus gestates inside the uterus of its mother, making it far harder for researchers to monitor physiological changes.

    Genetic modification: glow-in-the-dark lifesavers or mutant freaks? 2010

  • Nor does it make sense to me how a woman who gestates an embyro and gives birth to a child is somehow involved in surrogacy, unless she were to then give or sell the child to someone else.

    The difficult issue of embryonic adoption 2008

  • The alien possesses a distinctive life-cycle in which a parasitic variant of the species, dubbed the 'facehugger', delivers an embryo into a host lifeform which gestates for several hours before emergence, a process which usually kills the host creature.

    Specieswatch: The Alien Adam Whitehead 2010

  • The alien possesses a distinctive life-cycle in which a parasitic variant of the species, dubbed the 'facehugger', delivers an embryo into a host lifeform which gestates for several hours before emergence, a process which usually kills the host creature.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

  • Hemingway said that talking about your work weakens it, diminishes the magic it develops as it gestates in your head.

    2007 August « Becca’s Byline 2007

  • Hemingway said that talking about your work weakens it, diminishes the magic it develops as it gestates in your head.

    Write on Wednesday-Coming Out of the Writer’s Closet 2007

  • While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born.

    memeage! « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

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