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These experiments showed that male sex hormones help regulate how rapidly skin cells mature and move out of the stem cell layer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The shrubs may reach full size around year 10, but it takes them two to three decades to fully mature and rebuild their bank of seeds underground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Yet this true story of peril and peregrination is a treat for the mature reader, too, not least because Shulevitz had a gift for evoking how it feels to be small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Outdoors, a swimming pool anchors the backyard, surrounded by mature trees and multiple areas for lounging, dining, and hosting guests.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

It is a truly spectacular variety that can easily grow six feet tall, with arching, attractively shaped fronds and spore-bearing stalks that turn a pleasing shade of brown when fully mature.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

“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

Compared with the maturer statements of the Philosophy of Law, they have the faults of the Romantic age to which their inception belongs.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period.

From Time Magazine Archive

King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

If further we compare the earlier tragedies with the later, we find that it is in the latter, the maturest works, that this inward struggle is most emphasised.

From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The paper mostly matures in under a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

As the system matures, that environment develops into a gas-poor debris disk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 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

When aged-spirits distillers are deciding how much new stock to lay down each year, they have to make an educated guess about what demand will look like when the alcohol matures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Hearing develops from about 19 to 26 weeks of the pregnancy when the inner ear matures, and babies respond to voices and classical music by turning towards it and relaxing.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

When her indexed annuity matured in 2023, Athene offered her a two-year extension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

In second grade, Robert Caseman and his ilk matured a bit.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

Rather than quickly maturing into other cell types, the progenitors continued multiplying while preserving their identity and their capacity to generate functional immune cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

In a fund, maturing bonds roll into newer ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Both Mayfield and Driscoll discussed how the ultrashort investing style gives them opportunities to buy longer-term bonds that are maturing in the near term.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Seasonally, there is less cash coming into the market from bonds maturing, but supply is pretty robust.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

He could not lose his job, and with it, this solid house, with its ever-growing lawn and maturing ornamental shrubbery.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen