mature
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As a result, almost 33% of U.S. public debt will mature in a year or less, and another 35% within five years, according to Treasury data.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 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
As a result of their less mature brains, kids exhibit less impulse control and self-restraint than adults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
A side previously questioned for their professionalism has appeared more mature and adaptable, though the build-up to the second Test was overshadowed an incident involving bowler Brydon Carse outside a nightclub in Derby.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
When the seeds finally mature, the berries turn red, sweet, and tender.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“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
The concision of the design ... is in Epstein's maturest manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
King Lear contains half a dozen roles stamped with Shakespeare's maturest genius.
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
After all these painful misgivings, however, and the maturest judgment that I could bestow upon the subject, I came to the resolution to suffer what seemed the predestined current of events to run its course.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
So it will be no fun to watch the price of your bond decline, but if you wait until it matures, you will be paid the face value of the bond.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
They also have a major role in building myelin as the brain matures.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 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
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
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
This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva’s old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
It has also raised corporate borrowing costs and made refinancing maturing U.S. debt more expensive.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Treasury raised the size of its planned buyback operation for Treasurys maturing in 10 to 20 years to $6 billion, triple the typical amount.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Twenty years after the release of “B’Day,” Beyoncé has had the luxury of growing and maturing as an artist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The full maturing of whatever seeds of malignancy have been sown by these chemicals is yet to come.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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