How to Use incubator in a Sentence

incubator

noun
  • An audio recorder captures the sounds in the nest, which the zoo will play back to the eggs in the incubator.
    Emily Anthes, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • After three months in an incubator, none of the eggs hatched.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • There is, of course, a strong case to be made for the university as an incubator of all ideas.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, Google slashed funding and scrapped half the projects for its incubator Area 120 last year.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In my mind, an incubator is a program that’s long-term, doing things that take time.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • Oni plans to add more creators to its incubator program in 2023.
    Matt Craig, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The camera revealed that a small ecosystem started to form around the incubators.
    Vittoria Traverso, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • All the world’s a stage, and Detroit, as usual, is a prime incubator for emerging talent.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The couple’s craft bagel business joined Chef Space, the kitchen incubator, and began with pop-ups at local bars.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Those getaways can serve as an incubator, a place where in between all the trash talk and poker games, things are getting done.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • Maybe even out of the small-business incubator a block over on Clinton Avenue.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 21 Dec. 2022
  • What fans may not know is that the movie is the first major film to hail from Thompson’s own production studio and incubator.
    Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • At the Emirates Hospital in Rafah, three to four newborns are placed in each of its 20 incubators, which are designed for just one.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
  • To many Israelis, the city and its environs are a dreaded incubator of terrorism that has claimed many lives over the years.
    Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Warwick decided to take them home to warm them up in an incubator.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The death of Jezebel means the death of an important incubator for female writing talent.
    Erin Gloria Ryan, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • One of those was an in-house incubator called Area 120 that was basically shut down by this month’s cutbacks.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The store became both a clubhouse and an incubator for London’s punk movement.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Their small sounds and snuffles were barely audible above the lilting bleeps of incubators in the neonatal ward.
    Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • And our forces brought fuel and incubators and all the babies are going out and the hospital continues to function.
    ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • And while there are incubator programs for food and beverage brands in Rhode Island, there aren’t any that work with alcohol brands.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • Some of the infants had to be removed from their incubators due to power shortages and were at risk of dying, according to medical staff.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The Homewood resident will take charge of the startup incubator Monday, Dec. 12.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Whether the Taliban will once again allow Afghanistan to become an incubator for extremism is still an open question.
    Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Once the breeding season is done, the data will be analyzed and used for future incubator settings.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 25 May 2023
  • The Almeida has been an incubator for many successful West End transfers.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Rhodes is among more than a dozen local entrepreneurs at the new incubator space in the heart of one of the city’s most economically disadvantaged areas.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
  • Not an incubator in sight, despite their widespread use in England.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Hall spent the first five months of his life in the hospital, hooked up to a feeding tube and ventilator in an incubator, facing an uncertain future.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The plan was simple: a Woodland Park zookeeper would transport the six eggs from Atlanta to Seattle on a roughly six-hour flight, using a portable incubator to keep the eggs warm.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024

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