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ripe for something

ready for something to happen She thinks the whole unemployment insurance system is ripe for an overhaul. Nobody was sure if the television audience was ripe for something different. Kinshasa is a city ripe for change.

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He could not be at peace because after dreaming so long of family life, and feeling himself so ripe for it, he was still not married, and was further than ever from marriage. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context A tap upon the shoulder served to rouse Toby from his reverie; I found him ripe for the enterprise, and a very few words sufficed for a mutual understanding between us. Typee by Melville, Herman View in context There are two things which of all others most evidently occasion a revolution in an oligarchy; one is, when the people are ill used, for then every individual is ripe for [1305b] sedition; more particularly if one of the oligarchy should happen to be their leader; as Lygdamis, at Naxus, who was afterwards tyrant of that island. A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context			ring with ringer rinky-dink rinse rinse down rinse mouth out rinse off rinse out rinse out of rinse with riot riot of color rip rip apart rip away rip down rip in half rip into rip off rip on rip out of rip to rip up rip-roaring ripe ripe for ripe old age ripen into ripple ripple of excitement ripple of protest ripple through ripsnorter rise rise above rise against Rise and shine! rise from rise from the ashes rise from the dead rise from the ranks rise in rise to rise to feet rise to the bait rise to the challenge rise to the occasion rise to the top rise up risk risk life and limb			Riparian zones Riparious Riparium Riparium RIPAS RIPB ripbit RIPC RIPCG RIPCO ripcord ripcord ripcording ripcords ripcords RIPCPC RIPD RIPDAT RIPDES ripe ripe ripe ripe ripe ripe cataract ripe cataract ripe cataract ripe cataract ripe cervix Ripe Digital Entertainment ripe for RIPE NCC RIPE Network Coordination Centre ripe old age ripe olive ripe to submit for judicial review RIPE3 RIPEA RIPEC RIPED ripely ripely ripely ripely RiPEM RiPEM RIPEMD ripen ripen ripen ripen ripen ripen into ripened ripened ripener ripener ripeness ripeness ripeness ripeness

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