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Bananas are green when unripe.
unripe and unprepared recruits who were sent into battle as cannon fodder
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These early albums are a little unripe in places, but there are signs of the writer Carpenter would become.
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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
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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
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“Unripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unripe. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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