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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
For the Nasdaq Composite , the time may already be ripe for a seasonal reversal.
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Jesse Pound, CNBC, 14 July 2025
The land surrounding Bear Lake is also ripe for adventure.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
The latest and greatest is all here, and there are still loads of fashion steals and beauty finds, ripe for the picking.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 11 July 2025
Firm, ripe bananas will hold their shape when sliced and layered.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
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Jesse Pound, CNBC, 14 July 2025
The land surrounding Bear Lake is also ripe for adventure.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
The latest and greatest is all here, and there are still loads of fashion steals and beauty finds, ripe for the picking.
—Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 11 July 2025
Firm, ripe bananas will hold their shape when sliced and layered.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ripe
Adjective
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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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Twenty-one mature Yoshino cherry trees along Riverfront Park were literally on the chopping block in March 2019 to make room for a temporary NFL Draft stage.—
Bryan West,
Nashville Tennessean,
19 July 2025
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Consider the mature height and width of a tree species before planting it.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
18 July 2025
Adjective
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The foul was upgraded to a flagrant foul penalty 2, resulting in an automatic ejection for Banks.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
21 July 2025
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The other is a red panda named Bad Rudi with a penchant for foul language.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
16 July 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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But today that moral arc is as twisted as a gnarled, rotten root, and God Bless America has been replaced by the mournful dirge of Taps.—
Marci Alborghetti,
Hartford Courant,
3 July 2025
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The odor comes from a toxic gas that’s colorless and smells like rotten eggs.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2025
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There is no way around it: Toilet brushes are disgusting.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
16 July 2025
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Nearly 200 pounds of disgusting mats and fur was removed, which equates to an average of 1.5 pounds per dog.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Their stories include the reasons that kept them from evacuating and then the harrowing odysseys that took some of them through fetid streets of flood waters, others to the nightmare that was the Superdome or the Convention Center, and still others across impassable bridges and freeways.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.—
Graham Techler,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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Callery pear and Bradford pear trees are considered malodorous, according to the Spruce, a home and garden site.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Rue was considered the most malodorous of all herbs, was even thought to keep away evil spirits, and was spread on church floors for this purpose.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
12 June 2025
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“Ripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripe. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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