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Hadid and Laham, who met through mutual friends years ago, took time to incubate and perfect the jewelry designs over two years before the official launch last month. — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, "Anwar Hadid Wants Everyone to Wear His Unisex Jewelry Label," 8 Apr. 2019 ConsenSys Labs incubates around 36 spokes, according to an email sent by Shawn Cheng, a partner at Labs. — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, "ConsenSys plans to spin out most of its startups, and it’s going to mean layoffs," 20 Dec. 2018 These were intimate spaces that may, in fact, have helped incubate her very intimate portraits. — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, "Searching for Myself in Alice Neel’s Radical Portraits," 26 Feb. 2019 Silicon Valley has incubated some of the world’s most successful companies but ask locals where to go for a world-class drink and responses range from blank looks to directions to San Francisco, an hour’s drive north. — Patrick Thomas, WSJ, "Five Bars Disrupting Silicon Valley’s Nightlife," 5 Dec. 2018 Since the financial crisis incubated in the credit markets, investors and economists have watched the growth of debt cautiously. — Aaron Kuriloff, WSJ, "Taking Stock of the World’s Debt," 27 Dec. 2018 Four years ago, Cai co-founded the HR software startup Fountain, which was incubated in YCombinator. — Chavie Lieber, Vox, "Italic sells brandless luxury goods from manufactures for Celine, Prada, and Gucci.," 15 Nov. 2018 Melodramatic Purple The trend was already incubating when Lorde stepped onto the red carpet at the 2017 MTV Awards in a light purple confection and gave it a name. — Hayley Phelan, New York Times, "Place Your Bets on the New Millennial Pink," 3 July 2018 Most of that is from The Fairness Project, which has spent about $5.5 million to incubate and lead expansion efforts in the four states, as well as in Maine. — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, "Medicaid-Expansion Fights Pit Hospitals, Labor Against Conservative Groups, Tobacco Companies," 20 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'incubate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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