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full-fledged

[ fool-flejd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

full-fledged

First recorded in 1880–85

While Kurdistan is not a full-fledged state and may never be fully independent, it is for now an important island of stability.

But he seems to have a full-fledged wanger going left and another going right connected at the base.

Both need to host national conversations about the benefits and challenges of becoming full-fledged partners.

The twins formed the Garden in 2011 as a "side project" that has now blossomed into a full-fledged career.

He went down in the street and a full-fledged, complex attack was initiated by the enemy.

He looked young to be an uncle, younger still to be, as he was, a full-fledged lieutenant in the 200th.

I'm a doctor—not quite full fledged, I'll admit, but with the right to put M. D. after my name.

Will get more work and more pay, when a full-fledged barrister.

Besides, let me but have him a short time longer and who knows but that a full fledged Confederate may be the result?

He had graduated with high honors, and, much to his mother's annoyance, had established himself as a full-fledged M. D.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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