ripe
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For someone who loves her bananas barely ripe — when the peel is a beautiful ombre of green and light yellow — I’m now incapable of enjoying them raw.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026
This year, however, I think France is ripe for a meltdown so dramatic it will become a piece of moody French cinema where people argue and smoke a lot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
But conditions in the camp are ripe for a disease passed on through close physical contact and bodily fluids.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
“I think it also underscores just how ripe for insider trading many of these markets are.”
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
The paved road in front of us, lined with glittering ivory bricks on one side and edged with golden stones on the other, curved around ripe orchards stuffed with fruit trees I never knew existed.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Vocabulary lists containing ripe
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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Words from Shakespearean Insults
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