mature
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That timing appears to be essential for producing enough mature oligodendrocytes to properly restore the damaged myelin sheath.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Additional growth could come from newer hospitals moving into profitability as operations mature, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most indium goes into coatings for flat-panel displays, a mature market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
But plants further away were largely intact, with enough green leaves for their grapes to continue to mature in time for harvest next week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Mom’s new twin bed appears tiny under the weight of a mature sheet set, the edges of the quilt comforter sweeping the floor.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
“What I’ve told everybody is, ‘I’m a late maturer.’
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 20, 2020
"I came back to Scotland a lot maturer than when I left because I realised it was not quite the same up here," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2015
While the diction is sometimes childlike, even in her maturer poems, their "direct line" to sharp, unmediated experience guarantees them against affectation, and the reader warms to their sensuousness and apparent candour.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2010
She's maturer and obviously her game has improved.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2010
The most celebrated of these are present to the mind of every English scholar, from his school-boy days to his maturer studies.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
In Dialogue With Death the Hungarian Arthur Koestler's clinical notes on the subject of life & death were perhaps the maturest writing of the year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must convey the most dewy fragrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
That answer of Rembrandt’s is typical of the maturest teaching.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
They also have a major role in building myelin as the brain matures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Laddering simply means buying CDs with staggered maturity dates — for example, one that matures in six months, another in a year, and another later still.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the meantime, shares remain sensitive to headlines and selling pressure as AI broadly matures.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
That bridge loan, which matures in September 2027, was used to pay off debt from xAI, a startup founded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
As a young sea demon matures, the narrator said, changes happen in the monster’s body.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
Researchers examined differences in house sizes across the city and found that wealth became more evenly distributed as Mohenjo-daro matured.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
"In his first year Seydou looked like a young deer that could run but hadn't really matured yet, grown into his body," adds Jones.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The way this team has matured, it built every day,” said Rodri, the third-oldest starter on the team despite being just 30.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Power generation, storage, beam control and thermal management have matured to a point where directed energy is no longer purely a laboratory proposition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
"The bigger concern would be if charges eventually reach small and informal merchants in less-developed districts, where merchant networks are still thin and adoption is still maturing."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Brain development raises a different question: where does the stress hormone come from when the brain is maturing normally?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
CD ladders allow you to buy 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-year CDs, so that you have one maturing every year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
With his impish attitude and energetic outlook, maturing on his own terms, he seems far off from any sort of valedictory phase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
As in the families of humans, the maturing stars journey far from home, and the siblings see little of each other.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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