incubates
- present tense form of incubate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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"Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops," he says in the video.
From BBC • May 9, 2023
Many people on the ship may have been infected before the quarantine began and could be showing symptoms now, as the disease incubates.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2020
Leprosy incubates slowly, affecting the skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes and peripheral nerves.
From Nature • Mar. 3, 2019
The cock’s nest may contain 50 or more eggs, which he incubates and guards all alone, but which obviously come from a great many hens.
From New York Times • May 29, 2018
The emergence of hiv was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
