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Chairman of the Sliabh Beagh Curlew Conservation Trust Dr John Cusack said the eggs were incubated for just under four weeks.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

It was fitting that the dogfight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

Average-size eggs exposed to traffic sounds were about 12% less likely to hatch compared with those incubated in silence.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024

We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas