ripeness

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Its tone suggests sumptuous ripeness from the top of its range to bottom.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Another prototype is an autonomous drone that uses vision algorithms to detect ripeness and grippers to pick the fruit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

Tesco is trialling avocado ripeness scanners and fans of the fruit are divided over whether it is a shopping hack or if a squeeze test should suffice.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

Some parts gleam carmine, a reminder of summer’s first ripeness; other parts thin to ember-orange, where the flesh has given itself up to time.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2025

Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding