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mature

[muh-toor, -tyoor, -choor, -chur] / məˈtʊər, -ˈtjʊər, -ˈtʃʊər, -ˈtʃɜr /




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A more mature Doncic steps into the Lakers spotlight during a transitional period for the franchise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

“They mature each year around mid-October, so you get a similar experience to owning individual bonds,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Rapid growth requires investment in computing capacity before the associated revenue streams fully mature, creating a cashflow mismatch, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The shrubs may reach full size around year 10, but it takes them two to three decades to fully mature and rebuild their bank of seeds underground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“I think you’ll find that Niamh is mature for her years,” Mrs. Scatcherd tells them.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

“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

Compared with the maturer statements of the Philosophy of Law, they have the faults of the Romantic age to which their inception belongs.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also wrote the maturest poems of his life, possibly the finest that have ever been written about war.

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

When you buy a bond, you’re lending money to the issuer who promises to pay you interest and return the principal when the bond matures on a set date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

As the system matures, that environment develops into a gas-poor debris disk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

By paying only $850,000 for your bond, the buyer would receive the 5.6% interest payments your bond pays plus $150,000 in appreciation when the bond matures at $1 million.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

“As the market matures, investors are becoming more precise about how that exposure is structured and which risks they actually want to take.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

When her indexed annuity matured in 2023, Athene offered her a two-year extension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

But the singer said he wanted “Dosis” to be different — he wanted it to show not only that he, as a person, has matured, but also that his sound has evolved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

You’re supposed to have matured into the kind of person who wants the broccoli.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

It’s distilled and matured in the Canadian province of Manitoba, but then shipped in large containers to bottling facilities in the U.S. for distribution to American customers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

He was a firmly masculine type; perhaps he was disliked only because he had matured before the rest of us.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Rather than quickly maturing into other cell types, the progenitors continued multiplying while preserving their identity and their capacity to generate functional immune cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Both Mayfield and Driscoll discussed how the ultrashort investing style gives them opportunities to buy longer-term bonds that are maturing in the near term.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Germany is due to auction bonds maturing in 2028 and 2033 in the coming week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

U.S. apartment landlords face more than $1.8 trillion in debt coming due over the next decade, with about $757 billion maturing from now to 2028.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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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