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Recent Examples of unripe These early albums are a little unripe in places, but there are signs of the writer Carpenter would become. Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2025 For centuries Champagne producers set large crops, harvested unripe fruit and bolstered their lackadaisical vineyard efforts by adding copious amounts of sugar (dosage), with uniformity and consistency being the goal. Patrick Comiskey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024 Nothing but complaints about acne, mosquitos, unripe fruit. Jennifer Harlan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024 There is not much to be gained by Washington’s doing more in the region right now, especially if more is defined in terms of large, prolonged military interventions designed to remake societies decidedly unripe for democracy. Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013 See All Example Sentences for unripe
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unripe
Adjective
  • This doesn’t sound like their mess to clean up, and just sounds a bit immature/entitled.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Children and adults pick up an avalanche of unreliable information on social media, and children may process it with immature judgment.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the sparring, intellectual parents to two adolescent sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline), The Squid and the Whale responds to some of Baumbach’s own experiences as a product of divorce in the 1980s.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
  • One of the main jobs of the adolescent human is to pull away from their parents in preparation for adulthood.
    Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Art Across Boundaries Since a young age, Yi Ming has been passionate about the power the visual arts possess to transcend not only philosophical and disciplinary boundaries, but also cultural and national borders.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • However, the team already has young pass-rushers that haven't fully developed like David Ojabo and Tavius Robinson, making Stewart redundant.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Benin explains that Drizzle is made with small unripened olives, harvested in the fall before the rainy season in Spain, where the olives are sourced, so there’s minimal water and oil inside.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Equally delicious is her banana cou cou, smashed unripened banana topped with lamb gravy.
    Patrick Scott, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025

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“Unripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unripe. Accessed 8 May. 2025.

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