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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
It-foods should also have humble origins — oysters used to be cheap! — and therefore be ripe for a rebranding.
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Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 30 Jan. 2025
The three weighed in on why condo terminations are becoming more popular and the telltale signs a condominium is ripe for redevelopment.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Why condo buyouts are on the rise The three weighed in on what makes a condo ripe for termination:
1.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
The official jour d'amour is just around the corner, and the best Valentine's Day gifts are ripe for the picking.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 24 Jan. 2025
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Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 30 Jan. 2025
The three weighed in on why condo terminations are becoming more popular and the telltale signs a condominium is ripe for redevelopment.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
Why condo buyouts are on the rise The three weighed in on what makes a condo ripe for termination:
1.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2025
The official jour d'amour is just around the corner, and the best Valentine's Day gifts are ripe for the picking.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 24 Jan. 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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During this entire period, the Palestinians failed to prepare for statehood in any mature way.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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In fact, fire is essential to the germination of its seeds so that if their viability expires and then a fire comes along and incinerates mature plants of this species, that could spell this species’ extinction in the area where the fire occurred.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
8 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
Adjective
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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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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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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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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
Adjective
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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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Only one of them has a fetish for the fetid stink of porta potties, but the other one has their weird kinks too.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 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 21 Feb. 2025.
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