ripen into

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Clusters of small pinkish-white flowers in spring, a favorite of hummingbirds, butterflies and other native pollinators, ripen into delicious blue-black berries in late summer, providing forage for songbirds, animals and humans alike.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2023

Here's some of what's coming, whether to ripen into maturity or to rot on the ground.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2017

In that same paragraph, Justice Stevens made a second prediction, one that took a little longer to ripen into brilliant wrongness.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2017

“In my view Sigma Nu is honored that his long ago ‘pledge’ will now ripen into official full membership, a condition many thought already existed.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 5, 2017

It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes