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as in to promote
to help the growth or development of
hopefully, these youthful visits to the museum will incubate an enduring love of art
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Recent Examples of incubate
Besides lacking scientific credibility or moral standing, quarantining West Point assumed that all seventy thousand residents at West Point were incubating Ebola.
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Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Shadow was seen incubating the eggs just before 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, the Friends of Big Bear Valley’s executive director Sandy Steers wrote on Facebook.
—Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
The job of the innovation lab is to incubate new technology at businesses and then help scale.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
For a decade, beginning in 1978, employees of the Park Service’s Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery collected and incubated 22,507 eggs—10 to 20 nests of 100 or so eggs each per year—of which more than 17,300 hatched.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
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Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Shadow was seen incubating the eggs just before 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, the Friends of Big Bear Valley’s executive director Sandy Steers wrote on Facebook.
—Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
The job of the innovation lab is to incubate new technology at businesses and then help scale.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
For a decade, beginning in 1978, employees of the Park Service’s Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery collected and incubated 22,507 eggs—10 to 20 nests of 100 or so eggs each per year—of which more than 17,300 hatched.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incubate
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The Handmaid’s Tale has already spawned a spinoff, The Testaments, that will star Lucy Halliday in the lead role opposite Dowd and Chase Infiniti.—
Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Apr. 2025
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The storms were fueled by a stationary atmospheric river last week that spawned dozens of tornadoes and overwhelmed communities with up to 16 inches of rain in four days – a 100-to-1,000-year rainfall event, meteorologists said.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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In a social media post Sunday, Kennedy promoted two such practitioners who have become popular in West Texas among vaccine-hesitant families: Ben Edwards and Richard Bartlett.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2025
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Musk responded to an X user who shared a video of Navarro promoting tariffs.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Location Capella Taipei sits along arguably Taipei’s most beautiful street, Dunhua North Road, its European boulevard-style layout lined with trees as far as the eye can see.—
Travis Levius,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Apr. 2025
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The four rectangular objects, each measuring about three inches long, sat atop reeds in a corner of the tomb.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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To bring in more visitors, Katsuo-ji came up with a creative way to encourage tourists to engage with the Daruma dolls.—
Rebecca Cairns,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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The frantic trading, which sent stocks spiking before plummeting again, showed how investors are operating on a hair trigger and are eager for any sign of encouraging news.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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Nobody believes the missing couple hatched a plan to vanish and start a new life someplace else.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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Chicago developers continue hatching plans for new apartment towers, and the Chicago Plan Commission has greenlit dozens of new developments, but high interest rates and borrowing costs have temporarily squelched investment.—
Brian J. Rogal,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Iran has cultivated an astonishing intellectual and artistic depth with far fewer resources than many other nations.—
Rebecca Ruth Gould,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2025
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Since selling the bulk of its cable and studio assets to Walt Disney Co. in 2019, Fox News’ corporate parent has focused intently on programming that cultivates live viewership.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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Developing healthier ways to feel valued — such as through positive reinforcement, building self-esteem or fostering emotional support networks — can gradually help replace the need for drama with more stable and nurturing sources of validation.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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The filmmaker collective and independent production company is focused on nurturing new and emerging talent globally.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2025
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The new trailer offers a glimpse of a dark, brooding landscape where reality and the virtual world collide.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
5 Apr. 2025
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Playing as Zoe and Mio, you’re thrust into the whimsical fantasy and brooding sci-fi worlds that each of them dream up as fiction writers (hence the title).—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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