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as in matured
fully grown or developed
I like pears when they're still hard, before they're mature
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as in due
having reached the date at which payment is required
mature bonds
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as in pornographic
dealing in or with explicitly sexual material
a mature talk show that is available only on pay-cable
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as in to grow
to become mature
a young figure skater whose talent is still maturing
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Recent Examples of mature
K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
Our team is now more experienced, more mature.
—Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 23 Mar. 2026
But with age comes a natural maturing, and Sunday proved to be a good example of it for Bradley.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Disney leads with the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, while Hulu serves a more mature audience with movies and shows from network partners like Fox.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
Our team is now more experienced, more mature.
—Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
Grayson Stadium, now 100 years old as the Savannah Bananas’ 2026 season gets underway, didn’t mature nearly as gracefully.
—Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 23 Mar. 2026
But with age comes a natural maturing, and Sunday proved to be a good example of it for Bradley.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mature
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Think of this as the matured version of the Kool-Aid dip-dye technique.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is due in a US court today to face narcoterrorism charges, a test of laws that have had limited courtroom success in the past.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Portilla is due back in court in April.—
CBS New York Team,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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For many readers and critics, the perception was that Mansfield was almost writing children’s fiction, since most of her stories are deceptively easy to read, although her themes are entirely adult in both form and content.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 2025
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Justin Vernon’s midwestern charm and pliable falsetto has always endeared him to indie-rock dads raised on Michael McDonald, but starting a family himself between Bon Iver projects turned this year’s Sable, Fable into a deep examination of the fatherly adult contemporary figure in popular music.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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One student, in particular, was sent a pornographic deepfake of his upper school classmate on the communications app Discord, apparently in error.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Founded in 2016 by British father and son Guy and Tim Stokely, OnlyFans rose to fame by hosting pornographic material forbidden on most social networks.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Invite a calm talk about time commitments, because fairness grows when expectations are measurable and both sides understand what happens if plans change.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2026
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When looking at the largest metro areas, the fastest growing counties tended to be on the outer edges.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Mar. 2026
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The mantra presents the image of a ripe cucumber becoming untethered from its vine, evoking a deep desire for liberation from the physical world—a strong yearning for an unbounded, eternal, and therefore immortal condition.—
Andrés Muedano,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Mar. 2026
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This deal is ripe for the picking.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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Then the novel progresses mostly chronologically following Hana’s life in the late 1990s, heading into the 2000s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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However, the very fact that these reports feel too routine to cover is a testament to how far climate change has progressed, even just in the past decade.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Mature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mature. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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