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What does come of age mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To mature, or become fully developed.
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As evidenced from the undeniable success of tonight's event, the movement has come of age.
Although other factors contributed to the outcomes in both the Bekaa Valley and the Falklands, the air-to-air missile clearly had come of age.
The author suggests that by summer 1998 there had been a turning point, and a more confident Commission had come of age.
Soyinka insists the day Africa is able to sort out its leadership vacuum is the day the continent will finally come of age.
Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
Many of these are young people who had not yet come of age at the time of the previous elections.

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