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as in maturity
the state of being an old person
if nothing else, the patriarch had achieved a degree of ancientness worthy of veneration
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as in antiquity
the state of being something old
the ancientness of the papyrus was authenticated by carbon dating
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Noun
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Gallegos recommends investors consider investment grade credits in the BBB class, between one and five years in terms of maturity (the average maturity is approximately three years), and where yields are near 5%.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
2 June 2025 -
He’s gained maturity and perspective by going through hell and back a couple times on the way to getting clean and sober; and he’s developed even more of both via fatherhood and, more recently, grandfatherhood.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
1 June 2025
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First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2025
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America had brought into the world an agent of displacement no less profound than what antiquity had known — the raw power of capitalism.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Elliot was brought in at age 30 in late 2024 to turn around the label’s declining market share (from 10 percent at the end of 2020, down to 5.7 percent last year).—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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Twelve people ages 52 to 88 suffered burns ranging from serious to minor, police said.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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“Ancientness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancientness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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