ripe
Example Sentences
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Caesar, Hegel writes, was driven by “an unconscious impulse that occasioned the accomplishment of that for which the time was ripe.”
From Salon
Brown-Forman has long been seen as ripe for a potential merger or acquisition, and it has attracted interest from other suitors in the past.
Tomatoes, for example, grow in clusters, which means a robot must carefully select ripe fruit while leaving unripe ones untouched.
From Science Daily
Strategic conceptions are ripe to be overhauled in the heat of crisis.
The last of the peaches were the Yellow Crawfords, ripe in October.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
