full-fledged
adjective
2
: having attained complete status
full-fledged lawyer
3
: full-blown sense 2
a full-fledged reunion
Examples of full-fledged in a Sentence
it was years before he became a full-fledged star
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What started as a butcher shop with a small kitchen quickly evolved into a full-fledged restaurant, offering dry-aged steaks, burgers, and handcrafted charcuterie.
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Ethan Stone, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
The Nets are in the beginning stages of a full-fledged rebuild after sending Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns and Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks ahead of the 2023 trade deadline.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
That might explain why many millennials, despite avoiding full-fledged smoking habits, still associate cigarettes with certain social moments.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
Still, numbers crunchers at the Stock Traders Almanac don’t see a full-fledged bear market coming, noting that corrections like the current one only morph into bears one-third of the time.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
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Ethan Stone, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
The Nets are in the beginning stages of a full-fledged rebuild after sending Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns and Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks ahead of the 2023 trade deadline.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
That might explain why many millennials, despite avoiding full-fledged smoking habits, still associate cigarettes with certain social moments.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Apr. 2025
Still, numbers crunchers at the Stock Traders Almanac don’t see a full-fledged bear market coming, noting that corrections like the current one only morph into bears one-third of the time.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Full-fledged.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full-fledged. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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