How to Use maturation in a Sentence

maturation

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  • The Cards took a big step in that maturation process this week.
    — The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This is about maturation and growth from a team as a whole.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Some things take years to come to fruition and maturation.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The change of scenery came with a maturation of her work ethic.
    — oregonlive, 11 June 2021
  • That’s part of a maturation process for the 24-year-old Stevenson.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The drug, called bomedemstat, blocks a protein that plays a role in the maturation of blood cells in the bone marrow.
    — Jonathan D. Rockoff, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That’s part of the maturation process in this thing is being able to not let Cleveland beat you two times.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Handling success is a huge step in the maturation of a team.
    — Bob Sansevere, Twin Cities, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The true mark of a team’s maturation is its ability to close out games.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • In that case, the tower might be a sign of urban maturation.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2020
  • For Four Corners, the deal represents both the maturation of the company and the end of an era.
    — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
  • Since a decade ago, there’s been a serious maturation of the field.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There is a ton of growth and maturation that comes when someone leaves home and has to figure out life on their own.
    — Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • And that, coach Erik Spoelstra said, goes a long way toward showing the maturation of the 2019 first-round pick.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Todd credits this to the maturation of a young front seven.
    — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The life cycle of birth, maturation and death is a given.
    — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • His maturation over parts of eight big-league seasons with the Cubs has been part of Baez’s journey.
    — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
  • That’s not to say Reichel hasn’t shown signs of maturation.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This maturation was more pronounced in females, as seen on the left.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The maturation process for Allen took time after 27 starts in his first two seasons.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • As mentioned before, this is not the first rye whiskey to get this type of secondary maturation.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
  • Still, the skill set is immense and the power should play right away, even if the average might need maturation.
    — Chris Blessing, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2020
  • But Preston's on-court maturation took too long, and he was left to watch his final game from the sidelines.
    — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • That’s part of maturation as well—the realization of that and the acceptance of that.
    — Angela Dawson, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • The liquid here is sourced, as the bourbon that’s being produced and aged at the Michter’s distillery hasn’t reached a decade of maturation yet.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 July 2021
  • Are the old timers wringing their hands over these fits and starts of maturation, fretting about where this is all headed?
    — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2021
  • This 20-year-old rum was barreled into an ex-bourbon cask and then shipped to the UK for its full maturation.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2022
  • What parts of that maturation have been easy and what parts were difficult?
    — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • After all, that maturation is one of the things that makes scotch whisky, well, scotch whisky (legally it has be matured for three years).
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The Colts know the maturation process for a defensive lineman takes time.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2021

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