incubates

present tense third-person singular of incubate

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Verb
  • Personality and purpose Upon entering the home, the first room one notices is Catherine's spacious office, which sits just to the left of the front door.
    Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Set plants such that the root collar (where branches meet the root system) sits slightly above the surrounding soil level.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was speaking at an event as part of a national speaking tour and sponsored by the campus chapter of the organization, which promotes conservative principles among students across the country.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The agency also promotes the province to the major studios and streamers and other foreign producers looking to shoot movie and TV originals locally.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Each individual character spawns their own stan following, fancam edits, out-of-context YouTube compilations, and more.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Army recruitment crisis spawns 'future soldier' course In 2022, as years of shortfall in recruiting numbers compounded into a crisis, the Army test-launched the Future Soldier prep course, a boot camp-style program to quickly pull up recruits who don't meet academic or physical standards.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company cultivates a variety of fruits and vegetables at its first commercial vertical farm, located in a warehouse in Avondale.
    Sasha Hupka, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As market shifts and technological advancements drive internal changes, the mindset a leader cultivates long term enables the business to effectively grow and change with the times.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Planning Commission hearing, nearly four years in the making, lays the foundation for San Diego to make one of its most consequential real estate deals in recent memory.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Compare this with a largemouth bass, who lays tens of thousands of eggs, of which only a small fraction of one per cent become adults.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Avoid over feeding plants, which encourages foliage to grow at the expense of blooms.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Veteran model Eva Herzigova is pictured in a sculptural skirt suit, while Liu Wen broods in a puffy leather bomber jacket.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • Getting creative with my style nurtures the confidence that empowers me to show up in the world authentically.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The vegan lip treatment delivers intense moisture via a peptide that smoothes and plumps, as well as hyaluronic acid that nurtures dry skin.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Incubates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incubates. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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