mature
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Elliot Anderson: Anderson has been excellent throughout this international break and produced another mature performance.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Bonds that mature in 20 to 30 years could offer competitive returns if equity market returns cool.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Plus, if a bond is going to mature in less than a couple of years, that adds another layer of insulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
As planetary systems mature and the flow of material onto the star declines, the jets weaken and the escaping gas becomes increasingly atomic.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
That’s a perfectly safe strategy in Mexico’s mild climate, but in Canada a disastrous one that would guarantee the plant’s being killed by autumn frosts before it had produced any mature corn cobs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“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 Clement K. Shorter
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
King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius.
From Time Magazine Archive
It expresses, in clear style, his maturest conclusions.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein
As its shale resource matures, U.S. oil production is likely to peak in the early 2030s, with remaining wells becoming more expensive to drill, according to a recent analysis from Enverus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Typically, investors immediately stop receiving their coupon payments, and if the reference asset hasn’t recovered past the barrier by the time the underlying contract matures, investors will risk losing principal.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
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
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
You’re supposed to have matured into the kind of person who wants the broccoli.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
I feel my style has matured and grown over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
Large sections of DNA switched between active and inactive states as the cells matured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
“Seasonally, there is less cash coming into the market from bonds maturing, but supply is pretty robust.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A 10-year bond can be thought of as two five-year bonds, one maturing in five years plus another that starts when the old one matures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
It has also raised corporate borrowing costs and made refinancing maturing U.S. debt more expensive.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Instead of returning to Rome with the sudden fortune, which had been his dream maturing in misery, José Arcadio converted the house into a decadent paradise.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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