mature
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But as they mature their lives diverge, in part because Lenù’s parents can afford to keep her in school and Lila’s cannot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
These days, bonds of investment-grade-rated issuers that don’t mature for at least 10 years are yielding just shy of 6%, according to ICE BofA index data via FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Outside, there is a large swimming pool and mature trees provide exceptional privacy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
He has had to mature in the brightest spotlight.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Charles Hubert Parry viewed the war, as did Elgar, from an older generation’s perspective, composing a cycle of choral songs of mature, eloquent poignancy in Songs of Farewell.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
“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
It is passing strange that he published no account of his two visits to the North in maturer years.
From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.
Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
He also wrote the maturest poems of his life, possibly the finest that have ever been written about war.
From Time Magazine Archive
King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period.
From Time Magazine Archive
Schlegel said of Thomas Lord Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle, and A Yorkshire Tragedy, that they were not only Shakspeare's, but in his opinion deserved to be classed among his best and maturest works.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
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
When the contract matures, the employee can sell shares and pay the taxes or extend the strategy by opening another contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The longer until a bond matures, the greater its sensitivity is to rate changes, a measure known as duration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
These yields are basically the difference between how much an investor pays and how much value one gets when the bill matures.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
It matures in the eyes of fish, but can only reproduce inside the stomach of a bird.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
In contrast, toads from the struggling population produced far fewer of these protective peptides during the tadpole stage, leaving them less prepared once they matured.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 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
Robinson has benefitted from being given the captaincy at Sussex and admitted he has matured.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Chinese consumers have "matured a lot", becoming more discerning, said Jing Daily's Nan.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Perhaps later, when the system has matured, more liberal policies may be permitted.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Byrd’s singularity remains today, as she weighs a legacy steeped in youth against her maturing body and mind.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
It also has a maturing satellite-communications business, as well as an early-stage artificial-intelligence component with multibillion-dollar deals supplying Alphabet and Anthropic.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
In terms of the in-orbit refuelling, a March 2026 report from the US Government Accountability Office found that Elon Musk's SpaceX had made "limited progress" maturing the technology.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The U.K will sell gilts maturing in May 2029 on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Part of maturing into a regular officer at Sing Sing was deciding whether you were an A-block person or a B-block person.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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