incubate
verb (used with object)
to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
have incubated
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present perfectof incubate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Second, once prisons and jails have incubated COVID-19, the disease will spread past the prison gates.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2020
"I'm producing to engender roles that I'm really interested in playing, and then I'll be extra invested because I have incubated the whole journey," she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2018
“I don’t think that people would have entertained the idea that they would have incubated over the better part of the year.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2017
In the past decade, iconoclastic and liberal biblical scholars have actively sought to publicize their views, breaking them out of the rarefied academic atmospheres where they have incubated.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are most frequently and accurately studied in the chick, because we can have incubated hens' eggs in any quantity at any stage of development.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
