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as in matured
fully grown or developed
a ripe tomato
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as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
the clothes of the field hands were sweaty and ripe after a hard day's work
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Recent Examples of ripe
Although plot details are under wraps, the origin of Aunt Gladys is ripe for exploration.
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
The Dodgers were ripe for a takeover last season, too.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The northern French region of Calvados, known for its apple brandy, is ripe for the picking.
—Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
Depending on the application of new guidelines, your support might be ripe for revision.
—Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 10 Aug. 2025
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
The Dodgers were ripe for a takeover last season, too.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
The northern French region of Calvados, known for its apple brandy, is ripe for the picking.
—Adam Erace, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025
Depending on the application of new guidelines, your support might be ripe for revision.
—Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 10 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ripe
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ripe
Adjective
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2019
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Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.—
Joanna Slater,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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Best For: Normal-to-dry skin, mature skin How to Use: After cleansing, dispense into hands and pat it into skin, layering as needed for additional hydration.—
Deanna Pai,
Vogue,
24 Aug. 2025
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Caring nurse holding smiling mature patient hand at meeting in hospital.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Nationals put up a four-spot against Verlander, the backbreaker being CJ Abrams’ towering two-run shot off the right-field foul pole.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Guests will enjoy the experience free from disruptive behavior, foul language, obscene gestures, fighting, unruly conduct or inconsiderate actions.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This results in a charge imbalance that builds up an electric field strong enough to trigger flashes of lightning.—
National Geographic,
National Geographic,
13 Jan. 2023
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According to research from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, strong gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun deaths.—
Elliot Hughes,
Journal Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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He was once asked to accept a dead whale; another time, an entire shipping container of rotten garlic.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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However, many of the houses required significant repairs, such as removing rotten floorboards or other major renovations, which would have added extra costs beyond the home’s asking price.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Kruse and her co-conspirators are now on their fourth different set of lawyers in this dispute, and this is a disgusting publicity stunt by new counsel, as evidenced by the fact that the complaint and press release were sent to the press before the complaint was served.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
13 Aug. 2025
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The series sets the various human and humanoid segments of its cast on a direct course with the distinctly inhuman alien flora and fauna on the ship – there are some inventive little monsters aboard, disgusting and harrowing in their own special ways – to great effect.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.—
Graham Techler,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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Midsummer is usually when sargassum, the floating seaweed that often washes up in malodorous piles on Florida beaches, starts to wane.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Callery pear and Bradford pear trees are considered malodorous, according to the Spruce, a home and garden site.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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“Ripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripe. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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