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grew

verb as in become larger, evolve

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It’s been an adjustment for a player who grew up with a guard’s skill set even though he was taller than most of his peers.

From Los Angeles Times

Mulroney grew up in the U.K., the daughter of a factory worker and a janitor.

From Los Angeles Times

Braekhus was adopted from an orphanage in Cartagena at the age of two and grew up in Sandviken, a neighbourhood of Bergen.

From BBC

When I was younger, I was smaller so I was a winger, but around 16-21 I grew and now I am too long!

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Delila Combs, 18, pleaded: "We can't watch our baby sister grow up fatherless the same way we grew up motherless... Please, please give our family the chance to heal."

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