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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gestate .
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Examples
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Pelvic boundaries mark the sacred space where a woman gestates her creations.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Pelvic boundaries mark the sacred space where a woman gestates her creations.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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Passion gestates over several encounters so ensure there are a few “near misses” and lost opportunities.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Hemingway said that talking about your work weakens it, diminishes the magic it develops as it gestates in your head.
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Hemingway said that talking about your work weakens it, diminishes the magic it develops as it gestates in your head.
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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.
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