gestation

• You were quite a bit smaller than your sister when you were born (at 35 weeks gestation, which is 5 weeks early). —  Lindsay Teague Moreno
• When their gestation is complete, the newly formed trematodes exit the snail and burrow into fish, where they encyst inside muscle tissue.
• Apparently a long time in gestation, which is to say Hollywood hell, the biopic of Harvey Milk has finally reached the big screen. —  Mail & Guardian Online
• A superstition prevails among the Navajo that a man must not look upon a sand painting when his wife is in a state of gestation, as it would result in the loss of the life of the child. —  Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians
• But even if it cannot, I am persuaded that those who stand out against it, not from love of ancient injustice, but in the name of the free spirit of Man, will be the bearers of the seeds of progress, from which, when the world's gestation is accomplished, new life will be born The war has left throughout Europe a mood of disillusionment and despair which calls aloud for a new religion, as the only force capable of giving men the energy to live vigorously. —  The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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