grow into
Britishverb
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Develop so as to become, as in The army makes a boy grow into a man . [Mid-1500s]
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Develop or change so as to fit, as in He'll soon grow into the next shoe size , or She has grown into her job . [Early 1800s]
Example Sentences
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The lifestyle tax havens often lack the civic commitment that allowed places like New York, London, Paris or Chicago to grow into fuller-spectrum cities.
OpenAI just raked in $110 billion through a funding round that values it at $730 billion — but the ChatGPT maker must spend heavily to grow into that valuation.
From MarketWatch
“At this pace it won’t take long for U.S. equities to grow into their current valuations, resetting them to near pre-Covid levels,” he wrote.
I’d never seen twenty-nine monkeys grow into a thousand so fast.
From Literature
The charity further states that it hopes, by providing children in the foster care system with a stable, comfortable environment, it will enable them to grow into “responsible, self-reliant adults.”
From MarketWatch
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