How to Use incubator in a Sentence

incubator

noun
  • An audio recorder captures the sounds in the nest, which the zoo will play back to the eggs in the incubator.
    Emily Anthes, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • After three months in an incubator, none of the eggs hatched.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Once the eggs hatch, the tiny salmon, called fry, will make their way out of the incubator system through a pipe and swim into the river.
    Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2022
  • There is, of course, a strong case to be made for the university as an incubator of all ideas.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, Google slashed funding and scrapped half the projects for its incubator Area 120 last year.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Since this is an incubator space, check the website for the most up-to-date businesses.
    Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2022
  • Evan Burfield, the co-founder of former D.C. tech incubator 1776, will be on its board.
    Cuneyt Dil, Axios, 10 July 2024
  • In my mind, an incubator is a program that’s long-term, doing things that take time.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • Oni plans to add more creators to its incubator program in 2023.
    Matt Craig, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The camera revealed that a small ecosystem started to form around the incubators.
    Vittoria Traverso, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • All the world’s a stage, and Detroit, as usual, is a prime incubator for emerging talent.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The couple’s craft bagel business joined Chef Space, the kitchen incubator, and began with pop-ups at local bars.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The Chase has become an incubator of sorts for the best Jeopardy! players after their runs.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But the 1880s saw the invention of the life-saving baby incubator.
    Katherine Harmon Courage, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Those getaways can serve as an incubator, a place where in between all the trash talk and poker games, things are getting done.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2023
  • Maybe even out of the small-business incubator a block over on Clinton Avenue.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 21 Dec. 2022
  • What fans may not know is that the movie is the first major film to hail from Thompson’s own production studio and incubator.
    Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • As shown in the trailer, the third season of the show will see the incubator's founder and megastar Sage Odom, played by singer Ne-Yo, get arrested for murder.
    Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2022
  • At the Emirates Hospital in Rafah, three to four newborns are placed in each of its 20 incubators, which are designed for just one.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This mini-heater puts all its eggs in the portability basket, and in fact it's sized just right to be an incubator.
    Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2022
  • To many Israelis, the city and its environs are a dreaded incubator of terrorism that has claimed many lives over the years.
    Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Warwick decided to take them home to warm them up in an incubator.
    Cathy Free, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • When a female produces a fertilized egg, the egg is moved to an incubator.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024
  • The death of Jezebel means the death of an important incubator for female writing talent.
    Erin Gloria Ryan, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The wildlife team quickly put the babies in an incubator and then performed an emergency surgery on the opossum.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
  • It wasn’t designed for, this was the, the health business incubator that came to town and had contests people made proposals.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 May 2022
  • One of those was an in-house incubator called Area 120 that was basically shut down by this month’s cutbacks.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The store became both a clubhouse and an incubator for London’s punk movement.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Harris beams with pride discussing the show, which is now woven into the fabric of British television and has become an incubator for talent such as Emerald Fennel.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
  • That created clusters of demand and expertise that spurred investment, tech startups and incubators across the region.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024

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