as in ripe
fully grown or developed
a fully ripened musical talent
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as in grew
to become mature
pears ripening on the tree
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Recent Examples of ripened
Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
In the nose is pineapple and sun-ripened mango.
—Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ripened
Adjective
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For its part, the NFL says those markets are ripe for monetary distortion or manipulation.—
Contessa Brewer,Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
11 Sep. 2025
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From these experiences, Austen must have concluded that throwing together a play was a ripe scenario for generating drama and tension between a close set of characters in her fiction.—
Emily Zarevich,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Their curiosity grew after the highest DNA match was found linked to a family line in Romania.—
Claire Lempert,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Kirk fundraising, podcast built political movement Kirk's Turning Point USA grew rapidly as MAGA-style politics took root in America.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Science has progressed our understanding further and further back in cosmic history, but so far, there’s no end in sight to where the story actually, truly began.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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As their relationship progressed, the two married in 2003 and later had their sons, Jeremy and Nate.—
Brian Brant,
People.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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After mature plants have bloomed, use clean, sharp pruners to cut the plant down by one-third, cutting into green growth only and not into the woody stems, which won’t regenerate new growth.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
11 Sep. 2025
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Thanks to quantum cloud platforms like IBM Q, Amazon Braket and Xanadu, researchers can access quantum processors today, running simulations even before fully mature quantum hardware becomes standard.—
Somnath Banerjee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, people aged 22 to 27 with a bachelor’s degree earned on average $60,000 a year, compared to $40,000 for high school graduates, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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Children and adolescents aged 2 to 18, without other high-risk factors like immunosuppression, can receive and should be offered the vaccine if they were not previously immunized, according to the guidance.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Lenovo's software has also matured, so switching between games feels more like playing a game console and less like a laptop jerry-rigged into a handheld.—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2025
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He’s also just matured as a bodily human as well as an actor.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
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The test came a week after Kim visited the research institute that developed the engine, which North Korea said will be used for future intercontinental ballistic missiles, including a system called Hwasong-20.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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The failure to file or report properly on one’s tax returns may have traditionally been seen as a civil or administrative matter but has now developed further carrying potential consequences for one’s citizenship status.—
Virginia La Torre Jeker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Ripened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripened. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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