mature
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“The potential loss of so many mature Torrey pines is heartbreaking,” Channel Islands National Park Supt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
After multiplying, the cells normally reverse that process and become mature, fully functioning liver cells again.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Omar al-Bayoumi moved into Parkwood claiming to be a mature student.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I had an encounter once with someone who was on Epstein’s staff but was a mature woman,” he told the committee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
As time passed, I grew more mature and more aware of the sacrifice it had taken for my people to live and grow up in the South all those many years before me.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
“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 maturer mind is sustained in its deeper anguish by the power of looking beyond its pain.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
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
There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must convey the most dewy fragrance.
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
Some of George Eliot’s books contain fresher pictures than we find here, but none contains more that dwell in the mind, and in none is her maturest thought so well expressed.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
Regulators have signalled that platforms will be expected to meet higher standards as the industry matures, particularly when political or economic events are involved.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
It’s that a 30-year bond bought this month matures in 2056.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Lenders, meanwhile, have reacted by signing onto cooperation agreements early, sometimes years before debt matures, to negotiate more aggressively with sponsors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
They also have a major role in building myelin as the brain matures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
As it matures, the stem slowly breaks up—shatters, in the jargon—letting the seed dribble to the ground.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Researchers in the Food Microbial Sciences Unit at the University of Reading tracked the microbial and biochemical changes that occurred as three locally made Oxfordshire cheeses matured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The project is emblematic of the way digital twin technology has matured across the sector, said Evan Brown, a principal analyst in Gartner’s emerging technologies trends and invest practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
In the years we had been apart, my oldest brother, Hershel, had matured under my father's tutelage.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
"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
Imagine the highlight films coming this season with added strength and a maturing body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The lotteries take no financial risk offering that annuity since they buy zero-coupon Treasury bonds maturing on those dates, much the way corporate pension funds do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“The fact that I was unable to interpret it did not bother me. It was certainly better to imagine myself becoming famous than maturing into a stifled academic who had never risked a thought.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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