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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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