GROW UP Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

grow up

verb

Definition of grow up

as in to grow

to become mature everyone has to grow up at some point in their lives

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Recent Examples of grow up But after meeting Sessa, who grew up in New Jersey like Bourdain, the team of four reshaped the script. — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 De Araújo and her casting director cast a wide net to find Josephine, and ultimately discovered Reeves at a local farmers market in San Francisco, near where the filmmaker herself grew up. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2026 Jennifer Stone credited her work as an ER nurse with keeping her grounded after growing up in the heightened world of Disney Channel fame. — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 The teen tradwives who grew up watching it, however, didn’t necessarily see the difference. — Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for grow up

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The population of Quincy, a red dot in deep blue Washington, has grown as agriculture and food processing expanded.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Texas is entering a new era of education this school year with the launch of the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA), and some private schools in North Texas are already rapidly growing at an unprecedented pace.

— Lacey Beasley, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026

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The drilling pilot project was progressing but then came a new dispute with the government over a permit—or lack thereof—to recently move drilling equipment to the region.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
While there will always be clamour and excitement over new signings, the feeling across a club when a youngster can progress through the ranks and become a player that identifies with the thousands that watch him in the stadium is unquantifiable.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

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