maturation

So I just call it the maturation process of being an American kid growing up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

To follow how the cheeses changed over time, the researchers collected samples at multiple stages of maturation and analyzed both their bacterial communities and chemical composition.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

This necessitated a deeper kind of personal growth than does the ordinary maturation from pseudo to solid that Mr. Burgis discusses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Research has shown that raw cheese is not, in fact, resistant to pathogens; while aging can mitigate some risk, harmful bacteria can still survive the usual 60-day maturation process.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nearly $125 billion worth of developer debt – led by Evergrande which has five of the top ten biggest maturations worth nearly $6.3 billion – is due next year, the Dealogic figures showed.

From Reuters ● Sep. 23, 2021