as in mature
fully grown or developed
a matured plant in full bloom
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as in progressed
to become mature
a young figure skater whose talent is still maturing
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Recent Examples of matured
Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
Blurred lines As AI has matured, the question of its ownership in the boardroom has led to an increasingly confusing picture.
—Matthew Chin, CNBC, 11 May 2026
The dream of an Erewhon line in SoHo matured into a five-figure membership and a waitlist for court time.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2026
The Jura’s most famous and valuable wine is its Vin Jaune—French for yellow or golden wine—which is made from Savagnin and is matured in oak barrels for a minimum of 75 months during which the barrels are untouched until bottling.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 8 May 2026
What’s more, Pierre-Louis says early video games focused almost primarily on children’s and general audience themes — until the industry matured in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.
—Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Instead of splashing down or drifting under parachutes, the vehicle uses a lifting-body design (without wings) and will land under a steerable parafoil for a runway-style touchdown — a flight system unlike any that has matured to operability on a spacecraft to date.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 6 May 2026
Redox flow batteries are a better choice for long-term, grid-scale storage – and FlexBase says the various components needed for them, like tanks, membranes, cell stacks and pumps, have become cheaper as the industry has matured in recent years.
—New Atlas, 2 May 2026
What began as a seasonal experiment five years ago has matured into a fully fledged international dining destination.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Think of this as the matured version of the Kool-Aid dip-dye technique.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
What started as curiosity about playful packaging and novelty ingredients has matured into serious interest in clinical-grade skincare and aesthetic medicine.
—Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
Blurred lines As AI has matured, the question of its ownership in the boardroom has led to an increasingly confusing picture.
—Matthew Chin, CNBC, 11 May 2026
The dream of an Erewhon line in SoHo matured into a five-figure membership and a waitlist for court time.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2026
The Jura’s most famous and valuable wine is its Vin Jaune—French for yellow or golden wine—which is made from Savagnin and is matured in oak barrels for a minimum of 75 months during which the barrels are untouched until bottling.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 8 May 2026
What’s more, Pierre-Louis says early video games focused almost primarily on children’s and general audience themes — until the industry matured in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s.
—Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Instead of splashing down or drifting under parachutes, the vehicle uses a lifting-body design (without wings) and will land under a steerable parafoil for a runway-style touchdown — a flight system unlike any that has matured to operability on a spacecraft to date.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 6 May 2026
Redox flow batteries are a better choice for long-term, grid-scale storage – and FlexBase says the various components needed for them, like tanks, membranes, cell stacks and pumps, have become cheaper as the industry has matured in recent years.
—New Atlas, 2 May 2026
What began as a seasonal experiment five years ago has matured into a fully fledged international dining destination.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for matured
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More mature organizations are converging detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response into a more unified operating model.—
K.H. Koehler,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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In testing described by Anthropic and partner organizations, the system identified thousands of previously unknown software vulnerabilities across major operating systems, browsers and open-source projects, including flaws that had persisted in mature codebases for years.—
Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Verb
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As his tricks progressed, the Young Man felt horrified and confused at the same time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Three years later, authorities still hadn't progressed in their search for suspects.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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Some of my favorite things about these characters is the friendships that form separate from the romances, and that also felt ripe for TV adaptation.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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That makes the exercise ripe for the hacking.—
Jamie Ducharme,
Health,
13 May 2026
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The sounds grew louder, and soon armed and masked men were swarming the village, setting its straw huts on fire and indiscriminately shooting villagers.—
Annie Hylton,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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But as production costs rose and financing grew more risk-averse, those ambitious historical spectacles gradually disappeared from the big screen, replaced by smaller auteur dramas, comedies and internationally portable genre films.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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The 35-year-old Fernandez started his soccer career in Mexico aged 15, but injury ended curtailed his career.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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The victims include a 14-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man from Honduras, as well as a 29-year-old woman and two men -- aged 45 and 56 -- from Mexico, according to the Webb County Medical Examiner's Office.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
Verb
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Multiple nearby schools were placed on lockdown as the incident developed, the department said.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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The most common strain is Zaire, for which treatments and vaccines have been developed.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
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“Matured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matured. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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