Vikas Swarup

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

Indian Novelist

Michael Nesmith

I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

American Musician

Nick Mason

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

British Musician

Mahershala Ali

In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

American Actor

Wole Soyinka

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Nigerian Dramatist

Rajiv Menon

You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.

Indian Director

Jane Velez-Mitchell

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

American Journalist

Kevin O'Leary

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Canadian Businessman

Roland Joffe

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

English Director

Alastair Reynolds

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

British Author

Used to describe the natural development of a baby inside a living being.

Biological Process

Don't use 'gestate' for inanimate objects, it's only for living embryos or fetuses.

Not for Objects

It's typically used in a factual, scientific context, not metaphorically.

Literal Usage

Refers to carefully thinking about or planning an idea over time.

Intellectual Development

Common in artistic or creative fields to explain long-term idea development.

Creative Context

Suggests a gradual process, ideas don't 'gestate' quickly.

Not Instant

 but the training for the priesthood is rather extraordinary. The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18 two nine-year periods deliberately chosen to mimic the nine months of gestation they spend in their natural mother's womb;

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 This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum, from degenerating as it normally would do in that stage of the menstrual cycle. The corpus luteum is responsible for producing the progesterone required to maintain the pregnancy until six to seven weeks of gestation,

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 they learn the sound of their mothers' voices. Because sounds from the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and through the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus, the voices fetuses hear, starting around the fourth month of gestation,

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 except the news came out this week in Nature that there's now an artificial uterus in which they've grown a lamb to four weeks. That's halfway through its gestation period. So this stuff is moving right along. But why should we want a world where --

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 pattern that's only the thing that would change and see them looking differently lifespan gestation period you know size as much as the little later giraffe a little taller to me than this one's here and again remember this is a very

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 support that the body quite hydrodynamic will follow fairly quick the gestation period for sea lions is longer than average and we call this sometimes the delayed gestation sea lions here in Galapagos want their pups to be born at

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 hunting mostly for their meat and their skin and roadkill which is a huge problem in some parts of Brazil in addition papers reproduce very very slowly they produce a single watermelon baby after a very long gestation period

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 I find the gestation of humans and the development of humans and the slowness with which human beings develop absolutely astounding it really is quite remarkable how helped us the human being

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 so what is the gestation period of the hippo someone from the universe child from the universe apologies I've still got to get all those handles so the

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 the same time it takes to gestate a human infant. Eventually, all youngsters have to make it on their own in this drifting world.

Gestate