mature
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The state also accuses TikTok of falsely telling app stores the platform was suitable for children aged 12 and up and contained only mild or infrequent mature content.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
"She still has a child's mindset, not a mature mindset. She misses school, her family, friends. She even misses simply sitting at home."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Spanning 5,920 square feet, the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom residence is tucked behind gates and surrounded by mature greenery, offering plenty of privacy in the sought-after California enclave.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Rookie Josue De Paula, mostly filling in for Ohtani at designated hitter, has already shown he can take mature at-bats and provide some pop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
I chuckle at it now, but we also warned them against wearing black, a color we associated with being mature, with being grown.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
“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
So we find ourselves involved in the fulsome extravagance of his maturer epistles; so much the worse!
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
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
There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must convey the most dewy fragrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have laid before you all that my maturest reflections could enable me to suggest, for the direction of your conduct through life.
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Hester Chapone
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
It’s that a 30-year bond bought this month matures in 2056.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
A bond makes exactly one promise, and it keeps it until the day it matures.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
As a young sea demon matures, the narrator said, changes happen in the monster’s body.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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
Large sections of DNA switched between active and inactive states as the cells matured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Well, during the first month, you have one pair of rabbits, and since they haven’t matured, they can't reproduce.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
“Seasonally, there is less cash coming into the market from bonds maturing, but supply is pretty robust.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A 10-year bond can be thought of as two five-year bonds, one maturing in five years plus another that starts when the old one matures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Arun Kumar, a co-leader of the industrial products group for consulting firm AlixPartners, said automation is rapidly maturing for equipment at construction and mining sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It has also raised corporate borrowing costs and made refinancing maturing U.S. debt more expensive.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
As in the families of humans, the maturing stars journey far from home, and the siblings see little of each other.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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