as in gestation
the state of containing unborn young within the body
an elephant's pregnancy can last almost two years
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Recent Examples of pregnancy
After one failed round of IVF, pregnancy seemed even less probable.
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Michelle Konstantinovsky, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
Semi-corny public service gratitude clips play before diving straight into the main storyline of Sue Storm's pregnancy and the arrival of the Silver Surfer, Shalla-Bal (Julia Garner), with her unpleasant message of Earthly annihilation.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Her body has gone through the changes of five pregnancies, not his.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Blood returning to the heart can be blocked in certain positions later in pregnancy due to the presence of the fetus.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 17 Apr. 2025
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Michelle Konstantinovsky, SELF, 22 Apr. 2025
Semi-corny public service gratitude clips play before diving straight into the main storyline of Sue Storm's pregnancy and the arrival of the Silver Surfer, Shalla-Bal (Julia Garner), with her unpleasant message of Earthly annihilation.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Her body has gone through the changes of five pregnancies, not his.
—Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2025
Blood returning to the heart can be blocked in certain positions later in pregnancy due to the presence of the fetus.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pregnancy
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Trying out their research on mice was easier than doing so on elephants—for one thing, the average gestation period for a mouse is three weeks, whereas an elephant’s is twenty-two months, the longest of any mammal.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Asian elephants—the extinct woolly mammoth’s closest surviving kin—require 22 months, the longest gestation period of any mammal.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Pregnancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pregnancy. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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