incubate
verb (used with object)
to sit upon (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
was incubating
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past progressiveof incubate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I ran a few errands but wore an N95 or KF94 mask when I did, in case I was incubating an infection.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
Whatever I was incubating during those hours spent alone, whatever vision for a better world I’d let flourish in the hothouse of my youthful mind, it could hardly withstand even a simple conversational road test.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2021
Given the number of years that this project was incubating inside of you and being worked on in different forms, a lot of writers would have put it aside at some earlier point.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2020
They came upon Quasar, a fast-growing company that was incubating its business at Ohio State University’s agricultural research campus in Wooster and was aiming to build a digester network nationwide.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2015
But a mutiny was incubating in that ship.
From The Blood Ship by Norman Springer
