overripe
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The ingredients—lumpen husbands; wives that look like overripe supermodels; enough Spandex for Christo to have wrapped the Cooperstown Hall of Fame—are all predictably and obviously engineered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Remember when I said I don’t like to eat overripe bananas unless they are cooked?
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
“Boyfriend says it has aromatics of slightly overripe banana,” one Reddit user, leemoongrass, commented, adding, “It honestly isn’t that bad.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
The process is simple: the overripe bananas are peeled, cut into small pieces, weighed, and mixed with sugar, yeast, raisins, water and covered with lemons.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
The leg was black and soft, like an overripe banana.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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