fully fledged

full-fledged

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adjective

(of a young bird) having acquired its adult feathers and thus able to fly

developed or matured to the fullest degree

of full rank or status

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Words nearby fully fledged

full-wave rectifier, full well, full word, fully, fully fashioned, fully fledged, fulmar, fulminant, fulminate, fulminating compound, fulminating powder

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How to use fully fledged in a sentence

In fact, according to F-35 program sources, the next software upgrades are not yet fully defined nor are they fully funded.
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He made clear that he fully appreciated what the cops had done.
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He was getting another lesson in what he had seemed not to appreciate fully about cops.
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A 2012 study found that fully 76% of Duke students want to be in a committed romantic relationship.
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But the current pontiff, for reasons one might fully understand, declined to meet the would-be papal assassin.
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Fully two miles away, on the south side of the ravine, were the sepoy lines, and another group of isolated bungalows.
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It may be fifty or a hundred centuries since men, although they were fully grown up, still went on trying to learn.
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Either they are unavoidable if your living questions are fully discussed, or they are irrelevant and they do not matter.
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Not only have its fundamental principles been fully vindicated but in most details the working of the measure has been successful.
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She knew that she alone of all human beings was gifted with the power to understand and fully sympathize with him.
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