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Recent Examples of unripe How To Tell If an Avocado Is Ripe Eat avocados when ripe, not unripe or overripe. Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2025 The female bores into the fig to lay its eggs, which hatch out as larvae inside the fruit and eat the unripe insides before burrowing their way out. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025 When prepared the right way, this unripe variety has the potential to be just as delicious as other tomato dishes. Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 July 2025 One study showed that, per 100-gram serving, unripe bananas contain 18 grams of fiber, ripe bananas contain 4-5 grams, and overripe bananas contain only 2 grams. Merve Ceylan, Health, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unripe
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Adjective
  • Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability to turn into insulin-producing beta cells and to produce more cells like themselves.
    Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But let’s face it, the Red Wings have looked a bit inexperienced at times so far, too.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The helmers cycle through a year’s worth of seasons for Zhenya and Anatolij Pilipenko, inexperienced farmers who envisioned a new life for themselves and their two young daughters.
    Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother?
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC, offers food benefits, breastfeeding services and nutrition education to 65,000 Arkansas women, infants and children younger than five.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Every young solo traveler should heed these nine tips.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Unripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unripe. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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