ripe
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“To bring in things that are still not ripe at this point…That’s literally a giveaway.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
But conditions in the camp are ripe for a disease passed on through close physical contact and bodily fluids.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
There was a strong feeling the Pennsylvania course might be ripe for being tamed.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
If we leave the energy sector aside, since that is a commodity-price-driven story, the time is ripe to screen the financial sector.
From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026
For their main course, a little farther on, there was a whole field of winter wheat, its kernels newly ripe and soft.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Vocabulary lists containing ripe
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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