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

This year marks a very different start to the strawberry-growing season than in 2024, when the fruit was delayed in ripening following one of the wettest winters on record.

From BBC • May 18, 2025

“The circumstances are ripening in a way they never have before.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

Thanks to a sprawling global supply chain, refrigerated cargo ships, controlled-environment greenhouses and the introduction of artificial ripening techniques, American shoppers have gradually become untethered from the natural cycles of the earth.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2024

They passed more fields, wheatand corn and barley ripening in the sun, but here there were no men sitting in trees, nor walking the rows with scythes.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin