mature
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Ultimately, fewer mature oligodendrocytes are produced and remain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Additional growth could come from newer hospitals moving into profitability as operations mature, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
However, Ashbrook said true ecological recovery after fires depended on soil fungi returning, plants re-establishing and invertebrate populations recovering, while the loss of mature woodland could take decades to reverse.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
But plants further away were largely intact, with enough green leaves for their grapes to continue to mature in time for harvest next week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
They wanted to know if we could take care of ourselves, and we assured them we were very mature.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
“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
I tried to tell myself to wait for maturer years to solve them, and to a great extent that satisfied me.
From Miss Ellis's Mission by Mary P. Wells Smith
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
In Dialogue With Death the Hungarian Arthur Koestler's clinical notes on the subject of life & death were perhaps the maturest writing of the year.
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
“Thomas Lord Cromwell:—Sir John Oldcastle:—A Yorkshire Tragedy.—The three last pieces are not only unquestionably Shakespeare’s, but in my opinion they deserve to be classed among his best and maturest works.”
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
They also have a major role in building myelin as the brain matures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Plus, as the AI trade matures, investor interest is expanding beyond the early leaders to semiconductor companies and other second- and third-order beneficiaries of AI spending.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Spot Bitcoin ETFs record $6 billion in outflows over six weeks as Bitcoin matures into an institutional asset influenced by fund flows.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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
Hearing develops from about 19 to 26 weeks of the pregnancy when the inner ear matures, and babies respond to voices and classical music by turning towards it and relaxing.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Koss has no plans to trade bitcoin again any time soon, saying he believes the asset has matured to a point where explosive, parabolic gains are a thing of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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 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
A robust banking system and wide availability of nonbank financing helped funnel capital to startups and other ventures, allowing them to sustain losses for longer periods as their businesses matured.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026
This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva’s old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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
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
CD ladders allow you to buy 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-year CDs, so that you have one maturing every year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
With his impish attitude and energetic outlook, maturing on his own terms, he seems far off from any sort of valedictory phase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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