as in pregnancy
the state of containing unborn young within the body the length of gestation for the gray wolf is about 63 days

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Recent Examples of gestation The women's hospital will have a dedicated small baby team that focuses on the babies who are born prematurely at 22 to 25 weeks gestation. Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 But the gestation period for his take on The Running Man spans decades. Clark Collis Updated, EW.com, 1 July 2025 New iterations of Carrie, The Long Walk, The Institute, and Fairy Tale are also in various stages of gestation, along with spinoffs of It and The Shining. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025 More to Explore Oscar Schwartz September 11, 2019 Will outside-the-womb gestation, increasingly viable for animal embryos, lead to a feminist utopia? The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gestation
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pregnancy
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  • When the mother with the antibodies has a subsequent pregnancy, the mother's blood with those antibodies could attack the baby that has a different blood factor than the mom.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Trish and Moses finally spill all the details after keeping their pregnancy a secret for months.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 29 July 2025

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“Gestation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gestation. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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