INCUBATED Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

incubated

verb

past tense of incubate

as in spawned

to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop the hen incubated her eggs for two weeks

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to help the growth or development of hopefully, these youthful visits to the museum will incubate an enduring love of art

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Recent Examples of incubated His attempt at an answer is a new platform called PopZao, a website and WeChat mini program that Black Lake has incubated for two years. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 But the contemporary prediction market movement was largely incubated by George Mason University professor Robin Hanson and San Diego businessman Charles Polk beginning in the ’90s. — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 Others, for certain, are incubated by gridiron versions of cheer moms, who shuffle their sons around in search of stardom. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026 Tempo, the payments-specific chain, was incubated with Paradigm rather than acquired. — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026 Google’s self-driving car project graduated from X to become Waymo, and Google Glass was likewise incubated there. — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Aug. 2026 According to the ancient Greeks, a mighty serpent called Ophion incubated an enormous egg that hatched into the universe and all its inhabitants. — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026 The collaboration comes after Ephea was incubated by Kering’s Material Innovation Lab in Milan, which identifies, evolves, and helps to operationalize hundreds of alternative materials, with the hope of embedding them into brand collections. — Bella Webb, Vogue, 11 June 2026 The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together. — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026

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Gen Z Wants to Go Ghost, Not Girlboss That said, the characters do have to be worth clipping, and love him or hate him, Ryan Murphy has always had a knack for creating fictional people who feel bigger than whatever nonsensical story spawned them.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
Luhring Augustine moved into the 3,500-square-foot space in September 2020, as galleries flooded the neighborhood, lured by the low rents spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026

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The plant is also widely cultivated as a fodder crop for livestock.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Dahlan has since cultivated close ties with the United Arab Emirates, which has relations with Israel and was the driving force behind the 2020 Abraham Accords.

— Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

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Nvidia’s rise from an idea hatched in a booth at Denny’s to the world’s most valuable company is one of the defining business stories of the AI boom.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
To get her father and his siblings to offer answers to questions no one had ever dared ask in the past until Duong’s cameras rolled, an inventive hybrid documentary-narrative model was hatched for the film.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026

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But in an email to IndieWire on October 6, CAC co-director Kelsie Greene — who was promoted into the job alongside Skolnick at the beginning of the summer — took issue with how Skolnick and his supporters were representing why he was fired.

— Adam B. Vary, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
Bajaria was promoted to chief content officer in January 2023, taking oversight of Netflix original films as well as TV series, live events and a burgeoning lineup of sports rights.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

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This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.

— Angel Saunders, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024

Definition of sat

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The last thing this young and impressionable Dolphins squad needs is to have doubts that the progress being made, the foundation being laid, is faulty, and fragile.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
But this isn’t your average tennis court, with a chandelier somehow hanging from above and instead of grass or clay, there’s a damask carpet design laid between the lines.

— Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026

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