mature
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Under normal circumstances, surviving liver cells can temporarily change their identity, multiply, and then mature again to restore lost tissue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Apple is increasingly relying on product-mix improvements to drive growth as emerging markets mature, Chaurasia adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It is not practicable to water mature trees, gardeners explained.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Traditionally, it has been popular with mature students wanting to continue working while studying from home.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Eagle’s Ridge has dry, mature trees, overgrown brush.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“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
His whole life had been spent in intellectual digladiation, from his youthful philosophic contests to the maturer struggles with the overwhelming forces of the hierarchy.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
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
Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period.
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
This story was written about two years before the death of Dickens, so it represents his maturest thought.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Lenders, meanwhile, have reacted by signing onto cooperation agreements early, sometimes years before debt matures, to negotiate more aggressively with sponsors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
They also have a major role in building myelin as the brain matures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Even though it might not be 100% mature right now, once it truly matures and stabilizes, it’s quite possible it could perform even better than humans,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Laddering simply means buying CDs with staggered maturity dates — for example, one that matures in six months, another in a year, and another later still.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 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
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
In contrast, toads from the struggling population produced far fewer of these protective peptides during the tadpole stage, leaving them less prepared once they matured.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
By the time they've matured, you've either died or moved to a retirement home.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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
The Treasury Department said it would double its buyback operations for bonds maturing in 10 years or more, to at least $4 billion per operation from $2 billion currently, effective 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
Brain development raises a different question: where does the stress hormone come from when the brain is maturing normally?
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Now I’m fifteen and must think about maturing into a Christian lady.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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