maturation
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the audience has perched between seasons, with little indication of whether the show will sufficiently account for its young stars’ off-camera maturation within the story once it returns.
From Salon
In fact, it is technology that has produced the two overall trends she emphasizes in her new book: an increase in individualism and a prolonging of the expected transition periods from childhood to full maturation.
From Washington Post
“What you’re seeing is a maturation process, it’s like watching a teenage kid develop pimples,” he said.
From Seattle Times
Though Nealy is the focus of “This Isn’t Going to End Well,” the book is necessarily Wallace’s story, too, marking his maturation as a man and writer as he works to unpack Nealy’s history.
From Washington Post
“This new imperialism,” Williams writes, “underwrote the maturation of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century global capitalism.”
From Washington Post
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