mature
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“Fortunately, what remains are more of the large, more mature trees,” Richards said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Nick Florko: It’s a parasite that is spread by human feces, specifically feces that is left out in the environment to mature and gets infectious.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
As the technologies mature, they could strengthen the commercial space sector by opening new markets, reducing costs, expanding customer choice, and introducing entirely new capabilities for space operations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
He has had to mature in the brightest spotlight.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
She had what the catalogs call "a mature figure," and she was not at all self-conscious about it or the starbursts of tiny blue veins on both her inner and outer thighs.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
“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
A similar error was at first committed both in Ireland and England, but was corrected by maturer experience.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
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
He also wrote the maturest poems of his life, possibly the finest that have ever been written about war.
From Time Magazine Archive
It expresses, in clear style, his maturest conclusions.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig
If she’d like a little extra income to supplement her monthly budget, she could reinvest the principal each time a CD matures while keeping the interest payments.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Whenever a bond matures, a replacement bond is purchased with the requisite duration so that the overall ladder’s duration remains relatively unchanged.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
In the longer run, margins are likely to improve again as its cutting-edge chip making matures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
In typical human development, the striatum tends to shrink as a child matures.
From Science Daily ● May 10, 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
The researchers identified the cells they were searching for: so called immature neurons, which resemble young neurons that have not yet fully matured.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 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
His tone of voice matured, too, gaining a depth and wisdom that at times put him in the same league as Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
He believes that “Do That Again” reflects a matured version of himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
It’s like he never matured past sixth grade, so his parents just bought him bigger and bigger toys.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Yields on the 10-year German Bund, maturing in August 2036, rose 2.2 basis points to 3.145%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Byrd’s singularity remains today, as she weighs a legacy steeped in youth against her maturing body and mind.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Bitcoin is not disappearing; it is maturing into an institutional asset whose price is set by fund flows, Fed expectations, competing risk themes, and legislative outcomes,” said Deutsche Bank’s Laboure.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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
He was a maturing young man who needed his sleep, and this new early schedule didn’t suit him at all.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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