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verb

incubate

grow under conditions that promote development

In a sentence

Six example sentences with incubate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Technicians incubate the cultures at thirty seven degrees overnight and count the colonies before the morning shift begins.

    Science

  • Let the yogurt incubate in a warm oven for eight hours, and the tang will be sharper than any supermarket tub.

    Cooking

  • The accelerator incubates six companies each spring, giving them desks, a mentor, and the pressure of a demo day deadline.

    Startups

  • Sea turtle eggs incubate in the warm sand for about two months, and the temperature decides whether hatchlings are male or female.

    Environment

  • The company incubates new product lines in a separate building, shielding them from the quarterly targets that govern everything else.

    Business

  • The lab incubates experimental features behind a flag for months before a single customer ever sees the new screen.

    Technology

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