ripening

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Risk and ripening at Apple, Tojo’s destructive plan, a father’s formidable presence and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Back at base camp, the fruits were frozen to halt further ripening.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

She shows me ripening limes and lemons inside her allotment greenhouse.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

The company turned the so-called ripening rooms, where tomatoes once were stored, into dorm rooms that hold 14 workers each.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025

The air was close and warm and smelled of rain and ripening barley.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams