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How to use the word gestation in a Sentence?

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Someone might look into alternatives such as herbs, spend time trying to gather information, procure that substance, take the herb, take it again, take it again, and by then, they are later in gestation and maybe even less likely to be able to access effective methods, there's a real-time constraint here.

Jenny Higgins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The gestation period is long by the time you see returns.

Naganand Doraswamy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was the smallest surviving baby in the state of Texas, at the time, i was born at 24 weeks. Normal gestation is 40 weeks.

Tammy Lewis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is no evidence in this study that there is anything at all normal about shorter gestation for black women for instance, quite the contrary, these findings of very large racial and ethnic disparities should cause us to redouble our efforts to understand not only the biological but also the behavioral and social determinants of racial differences in health.

Michael Kramer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Our test was able to predict 80.3 % of women who went on to have any preterm birth, at 15 to 20 weeks gestation.

Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Following the scans at KIMS Hospital, the remains were in fact revealed to be the mummy of a baby, initial reviews identified the baby to be a miscarried c.20-week gestation foetus which, if found to be the case, will be one of the youngest human mummies recorded anywhere in the world.

Samantha Harris

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There's no timeline for this game, it might have an extended period of gestation, i would assume our diplomats have read the decision and understand the complexities and consequences of enforcing the decision.

Florin Ternal Hilbay

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I could n’t imagine a baby, and here she is. Time just flew by. The gestation is almost two years. But she was her like lightning.

Sue Tygielski

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's stunning that the governor of Iowa is so unfamiliar with pig farming that he doesn't know the difference between gestation crates and farrowing crates, this bill applied only to gestation crates, meaning there are no piglets to be kept separate from their mothers, since they're all in utero.

Paul Shapiro

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This bill applied only to gestation crates, meaning there are no piglets to be kept separate from their mothers, since they're all in utero.

Paul Shapiro

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life, in understanding and in creating. There is no measuring in time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

added by quotable
9 years ago

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Jacques Martin Barzun

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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