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as in matured
fully grown or developed
a ripe tomato
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as in stinking
having an unpleasant smell
the clothes of the field hands were sweaty and ripe after a hard day's work
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Recent Examples of ripe
Is there any holiday more fraught, more ripe for misunderstanding than Valentine’s Day?
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Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: Hegseth is both pushing Ukraine to seek a deal, and ruling out provisions Kyiv would want as part of any agreement to reduce the risk Russia would attack again when the time was ripe.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
The science is in on that: red quickens the pulse and sticks in the memory as no other color does—an echo, probably, of a time when detecting blood and ripe fruit was a more pressing evolutionary concern.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Courmayeur is also a ripe base to develop new spring-safari routes that capitalize on milder winters, late-season storms, and longer daylight hours.
—Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2025
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Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2025
Between the lines: Hegseth is both pushing Ukraine to seek a deal, and ruling out provisions Kyiv would want as part of any agreement to reduce the risk Russia would attack again when the time was ripe.
—Zachary Basu, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025
The science is in on that: red quickens the pulse and sticks in the memory as no other color does—an echo, probably, of a time when detecting blood and ripe fruit was a more pressing evolutionary concern.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Courmayeur is also a ripe base to develop new spring-safari routes that capitalize on milder winters, late-season storms, and longer daylight hours.
—Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ripe
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This is about a team with a top-10 payroll whose GM committed too stinking much of it to dogs that can’t, or won’t, pull the sled.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2019
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Muttaiah said the man inside the stinking manhole was working without any safety equipment — no gloves, no shoes, no supplemental oxygen.—
Joanna Slater,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2019
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This is where a healthy injection of Red Hat culture could do a world of good for the larger and more mature IBM teams.—
Jason Andersen,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Mangroves sequester around 10 times more carbon than mature tropical forests, while sea grass can pull in up to 15 times as much.—
Sarah Stodola,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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And this particular mouthful may have been really foul.—
James Doubek,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
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Two-way player Drew Peterson later entered the mix after Porzingis picked up his fifth foul midway through the third quarter.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
28 Jan. 2025
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This results in a charge imbalance that builds up an electric field strong enough to trigger flashes of lightning.—
National Geographic,
National Geographic,
13 Jan. 2023
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According to research from Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control, strong gun control laws are correlated with fewer gun deaths.—
Elliot Hughes,
Journal Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2023
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The unhinged reaction is proof the culture of the federal government workforce is rotten and needs dramatic transformation, not incremental change.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
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Still, power is power and the Albany Dems were getting ready to pass the rotten bill.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
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That’s crazy to me: divine love shown to us through a disgusting and emaciated corpse hanging on a tool of execution.—
Mike Lowenberg,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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What happens when a social influencer builds her entire rep on a disgusting lie?—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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The most impressive aspect of Schlesinger’s film is its sense of place: the sunny, awesomely relaxed, fetid warmth captured by Conrad Hall’s sumptuous cinematography.—
Armond White,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2025
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Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year.—
Dennis Hinkamp,
The Denver Post,
5 Feb. 2025
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Public stations were expensive to maintain and quickly became dirty and malodorous.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Jan. 2025
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Each lawyer, then, in his or her own way, played a part in creating a caricature: Danny, the kid in a tough situation trying his best to do the right thing; Mr. Neely, that malodorous man with schizophrenia stoking passengers’ fears on the subway.—
Adam Iscoe,
The New Yorker,
9 Dec. 2024
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“Ripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripe. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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