mature
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Egg freezing involves stimulating the ovaries with hormone injections before mature eggs are surgically retrieved and preserved for possible future use through in vitro fertilization.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Most indium goes into coatings for flat-panel displays, a mature market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fulton says the birds which have returned are "very young" and "take a long time to mature".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Already, investors can find bonds from Google-parent Alphabet that don’t mature until 2075, or Amazon bonds that mature in 2065.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
“But in my mature years I decided to wait until I had you and the other one in hand. Something to look forward to.”
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“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
I have seen many subjects for study in my first day's stroll, but I leave the men and women and some other less important features of London for maturer observation.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Expect big, gut-busting laughs from the set tailored mainly for only the maturest of gift receivers.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
He also wrote the maturest poems of his life, possibly the finest that have ever been written about war.
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
Exquisite are the perceptions of childhood, not less so than those of maturest wisdom, in what touches the capital interests of the heart.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
One way to make the most of different terms is a CD ladder: spreading your money across one-, two-, three-, four- and five-year CDs so one matures every year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Plus, as the AI trade matures, investor interest is expanding beyond the early leaders to semiconductor companies and other second- and third-order beneficiaries of AI spending.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 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
When the contract matures, the employee can sell shares and pay the taxes or extend the strategy by opening another contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
As it matures, the stem slowly breaks up—shatters, in the jargon—letting the seed dribble to the ground.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Researchers examined differences in house sizes across the city and found that wealth became more evenly distributed as Mohenjo-daro matured.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 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
Power generation, storage, beam control and thermal management have matured to a point where directed energy is no longer purely a laboratory proposition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
“We’re all older, we’ve matured as people and as players.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It was after that I noticed a change in her, as if her soul had at last matured and begun its cycles.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
The lotteries take no financial risk offering that annuity since they buy zero-coupon Treasury bonds maturing on those dates, much the way corporate pension funds do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Quantitative tightening, whereby central banks do not reinvest the proceeds of maturing bonds, also raises effective supply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
With his impish attitude and energetic outlook, maturing on his own terms, he seems far off from any sort of valedictory phase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Byrd’s singularity remains today, as she weighs a legacy steeped in youth against her maturing body and mind.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 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
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