mature
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It is not practicable to water mature trees, gardeners explained.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Some will have been mature students sitting exams for the first time, but most were young people resitting papers.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“This reflects a more mature and pragmatic consumer attitude among today’s young people,” Zhu said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
One of the most direct victims is the government itself, which will be forced to pay higher interest rates on its growing pile of debt as older bonds mature and are replaced by new ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It said that as kids mature, they tend to outgrow their pretend world.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
“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
Since he is an artist his thoughts appropriately find expression in phrases of maturer beauty than the speech of ordinary boys.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
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
Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period.
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
A bond makes exactly one promise, and it keeps it until the day it matures.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
They also have a major role in building myelin as the brain matures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 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
The offering is expected to be at least $20 billion, Bloomberg reported, with proceeds going toward refinancing a $20 billion bridge loan that matures in September 2027.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 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
As the animals matured, their dopamine-producing brain cells developed a more open DNA structure, making stress response genes easier to activate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The project is emblematic of the way digital twin technology has matured across the sector, said Evan Brown, a principal analyst in Gartner’s emerging technologies trends and invest practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"In his first year Seydou looked like a young deer that could run but hadn't really matured yet, grown into his body," adds Jones.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
As a result, hunter-gatherers could move up a mountainside harvesting grain seeds as they matured, instead of being overwhelmed by a concentrated harvest season at a single altitude, where all grains matured simultaneously.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Sit tight, and you’re living on the coupon with no way to reposition and nothing maturing soon enough to bail you out.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Organs are growing, metabolism is taking shape, and the immune system is maturing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Treasury Department announced it will double its buyback operations for bonds maturing in 10 years or more starting Sept. 9.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"The bigger concern would be if charges eventually reach small and informal merchants in less-developed districts, where merchant networks are still thin and adoption is still maturing."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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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