Antonyms for incubation
ˌɪn kyəˈbeɪ ʃən, ˌɪŋ-in·cu·ba·tion

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1. incubationnoun

   maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development

   Synonyms:
   brooding

2. incubationnoun

   (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear

   Synonyms:
   brooding

3. brooding, incubationnoun

   sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

   Synonyms:
   brooding, pensiveness

How to use incubation in a sentence?

1. David Heymann:

   Infectious agents travel around in humans many times within their incubation period.

2. The Texas Republican:

   Given that the interaction was 10 days ago, that the average incubation period is 5-6 days, that the interaction was for less than a minute, and I have no current symptoms, the medical authorities have advised me that the odds of transmission from the other individual to me were extremely low.

3. Wu Minzhou:

   Because there's an ... incubation period at play here, if they head out, for example, to cities in the north of China then it's highly possible they will infect those areas too.

4. Emily Staub:

   It’s an audacious and mind-boggling idea, i’m not just talking about just him. I’m talking about a whole bunch of people with the Carter Center that decided that they were going to eradicate a disease that has no vaccine, no immunity, no medication. It’s thousands of years old and has a one-year incubation. The odds are totally stacked against you. And the people that suffer from it speak thousands of different languages, and some have never had outsiders interact with them.

5. Michael Osterholm:

   I seriously doubt that the Chinese public officials have any data supporting this statement, i know of no evidence in 17 years of working with coronaviruses -- SARS and MERS -- where anyone has been found to be infectious during their incubation period.

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