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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
Revolutionary violence as political theater The years of the American Revolution were incubated in violence.
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Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Both birds attend the nest, which consists of 4 to 8 eggs that are incubated for about a month.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
Over the last eight years, the Canadian Wildlife Federation has incubated more than 6,000 eggs from a variety of turtle species, Seburn said.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Bitcoin incubated within a small community of cypherpunks and developers.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
More than 50 percent of Sephora’s brands are exclusive, and a large part of those have been incubated by the retailer at the global level.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Both birds attend the nest, which consists of 4 to 8 eggs that are incubated for about a month.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
Over the last eight years, the Canadian Wildlife Federation has incubated more than 6,000 eggs from a variety of turtle species, Seburn said.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Bitcoin incubated within a small community of cypherpunks and developers.
—Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
More than 50 percent of Sephora’s brands are exclusive, and a large part of those have been incubated by the retailer at the global level.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incubated
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The French started to plunder Spanish ships on their voyages to Spain, and the English quickly joined in—their attacks shaped, in part, by the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, which spawned anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish sentiment.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The incident also spawned a lawsuit.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
23 Oct. 2025
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And while almonds have been cultivated for centuries across the Mediterranean and Middle East, almond butter is a relatively modern creation.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Over the past 15 years Klingberg has cultivated authentic relationships with brands and customers; kept an eye on spending and remained 100 percent in control of the business.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
24 Oct. 2025
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So in February of 2016, days after Denver lifted its third Vince Lombardi Trophy, the idea that had been hatched during training camp months earlier came to life.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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OpenAI hatched a partnership with AMD to give Sam Altman’s company up to a 10% stake while the chipmaker rolls out a series of GPUs over multiple years for the ChatGPT AI leader.—
John Melloy,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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According to Bloomberg, Binance wrote the basic code to power World Liberty’s stablecoin, USD1, and has promoted the coin to its 280 million users around the globe.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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White can’t be listed as an emergency third QB on Sunday unless he is promoted to the 53-man roster.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
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Levi Jones, a 33-year-old business owner, pulled up to Sacred Eye Tattoos in Hollywood last week and sat for eight hours getting a photorealistic black-and-white portrait of Mangione on his leg.—
Amanda Rosa,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024
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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
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Maintaining positive ties with South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung would continue the lattice-like foreign policy encouraged by Washington, one that favors multilateral cooperation among like-minded nations over bilateral dependence.—
Hanako Montgomery,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Electric telegraph lines and railroads encouraged and were encouraged by a new age of imperial expansion, commodity extraction, industrialization, urban growth, global migration, rising population, and scientific development, among other things.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched in response to the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas’s attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to swaths of territory.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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The King, 76, met with veterans of the armed forces and laid a bouquet at the base of the memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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The same Philadelphia that witnessed the birth of American independence also nurtured competing visions of nationhood—ones that challenged the very foundations of who could claim full citizenship in the republic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Michele previously spoke about what makes Marie different from Homelander and brought up that she was nurtured differently.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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