Definition of full-blownnext

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Recent Examples of full-blown Audiences may think Redford emerged full-blown as a movie star. Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2025 The master of suspense made almost 70 films and TV shows across his staggering, more-than-half-a-century-long career, graduating from black-and-white, silent British potboilers to full-blown, Technicolor Hollywood blockbusters. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025 The economy was teetering on the edge when the crisis became full-blown in October 1907. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2025 But the companies say their transition to a full-blown, Uber-like taxi service will take time. WIRED, 11 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for full-blown
Adjective
  • Juliet Stevenson elegantly plays the aunt who is, naturally, a ripe target for a Ripleyesque murder.
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
  • In 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic canceled his classes, Fernández began experimenting with drying ripe plantains, mangos and pineapples.
    Rick Jervis, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Think of this as the matured version of the Kool-Aid dip-dye technique.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Her sixth album, Estrus, out today, represents a more mature inflection of honesty from the sad-girl-pop pioneer.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Pulling clean, structured data from a single page is mature technology, yet accurate extraction on complex, real-world documents is genuinely hard.
    Alberto Gimeno, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Full-blown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/full-blown. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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