gestations
- plural of gestation.
Example Sentences
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“Potentially, those gestations that would have ended in fetal death in 2021 were born alive in 2022 and then died shortly after,” Ms. Gemmill said in an interview.
From Washington Times • Nov. 8, 2023
For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2021
Clothes and show and conversation were like one big work in progress; the gestations of ideas not yet fully realized, but introduced to the world nonetheless.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020
The researchers who do this work say it would be impossible to use this technology with babies younger than about 21 weeks—and that pushing to earlier gestations is not their goal.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2020
On the other hand, I know of three well-authenticated instances of immunity in a sweeping epidemic of persons whose mothers had suffered attacks during the gestations which respectively resulted in their births.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
