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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
These markets are largely untapped and have amazing talent pools that are ripe for leveraging by small businesses in the U.S. and EU.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Sheila Kelliher spoke of the threat from unburned areas across the Greater L.A. area, with much of SLA and Ventura counties under red flag warnings through Wednesday, meaning conditions are ripe for fire spread.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Muffins Chop ripe star fruit and fold it into a muffin batter made with baking powder, flour, sugar, and eggs.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 13 Jan. 2025
Conventional wisdom says that the business is ripe for it, because there are too many services aimed at general audiences, and the landscape just keeps getting more confusing.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Sheila Kelliher spoke of the threat from unburned areas across the Greater L.A. area, with much of SLA and Ventura counties under red flag warnings through Wednesday, meaning conditions are ripe for fire spread.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
Muffins Chop ripe star fruit and fold it into a muffin batter made with baking powder, flour, sugar, and eggs.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 13 Jan. 2025
Conventional wisdom says that the business is ripe for it, because there are too many services aimed at general audiences, and the landscape just keeps getting more confusing.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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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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Only Wim's father and Fern's mother have received meaningful development, but this episode finds some time to underline how similar each parent is to their children... in their own, more mature ways.Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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With the company's shift to more mature programming in recent years, including its move to Netflix, WWE is now embracing brands that appeal to a more adult demographic, such as Real American Beer.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
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Which brings us back to the Knicks’ glaring issues: minutes, foul calls, and rotations.Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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The captaincy tag had appeared to shake him from a foul mood that has festered as the series has worn on exacerbated by the youthful exuberance of brash upstart Sam Konstas, who has really gotten under his skin.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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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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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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Summary Flatulence that smells like rotten eggs is common and is caused by eating foods containing sulfur.Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
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There is something rotten about it, and its been that way for a large sample size now.Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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This woman is just an awful, disgusting person in general.Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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Regardless of who wins, social media will be abuzz with the postgame mayo shower, which is either good comedy or downright disgusting, depending on your tolerance for condiments getting poured on people.Dan Santaromita, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Aside this was a pool — five or six feet long and almost as wide — of what appeared to be the same fetid liquid, congealed.Ian Frisch, Curbed, 9 Jan. 2025
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Sears does an excellent job with his role, capturing Johnny’s frenetic desperation to remain afloat in the clan’s fetid storm, but this critic, at least, wanted more for this character.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
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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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Gary Oldman remains as delightful as ever as the malodorous but brilliant Jackson Lamb.Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Ripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripe. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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