gestated; gestating
1
: to carry in the uterus during pregnancy
2
: to conceive and gradually develop in the mind
: to be in the process of gestation
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People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.
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Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
With more sales likely at MIPCOM, the long-gestating project is hitting schedules.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
Their memories and ways of being will be descended from our own, as surely as if they had been gestated in a human womb and raised by a human family, which will be the reality of their own creation stories and myths.
—Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Chad Stahelski is at the helm of the long-gestating project, which the filmmaker has been developing for nearly a decade.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
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Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
With more sales likely at MIPCOM, the long-gestating project is hitting schedules.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2025
Their memories and ways of being will be descended from our own, as surely as if they had been gestated in a human womb and raised by a human family, which will be the reality of their own creation stories and myths.
—Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Chad Stahelski is at the helm of the long-gestating project, which the filmmaker has been developing for nearly a decade.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Gestate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gestate. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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