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mellow

[mel-oh] / ˈmɛl oʊ /




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Over time, "you mellow, build networks and take what you can", often in the private sector.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Composer Bernard Herrmann’s score, his last, is alternately mellow and roiling, befitting its placid but simmering antihero.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

The edges of radicchio mellow just enough to stay interesting.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

And their experience was actually quite mellow compared to other flotillas because of how social media had been reacting to it.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025

That is what makes this aging-of-the-population theory of crime reduction so appealingly tidy: since people mellow out as they get older, more older people must lead to less crime.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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