"come into one's own" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1903, Jack London, chapter 2, in Call of the Wild",
          "text": "And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. . . . [T]he old tricks . . . came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always. . . . [T]he ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again.",
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          "ref": "1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 7, in Laddie: A True Blue Story",
          "text": "Sally just swept along smiling at every one. . . . Sally looked just as if she had come into her own and was made for it; I never did see her look so pretty.",
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          "ref": "1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 12, in Jimmie Higgins",
          "text": "Everywhere the people would come into their own, and war and tyranny would vanish like a hateful nightmare! Speaker after speaker got up to proclaim this glorious future.",
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          "ref": "1992, Popular Mechanics, volume 169, number 11, page 18",
          "text": "Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 November 26, Gemlyn George, “Healthcare in Asia: A Roadmap for the Next Decade”, in Time",
          "text": "The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40",
          "text": "\"We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all,\" Phil explains. \"This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own.\"",
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        "To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance."
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          "confidence",
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          "security",
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          "respect",
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        "(idiomatic) To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
          "word": "alkaa tulla omillaan toimeen"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
          "word": "raggiungere la maturità"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "materétʹ",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "матере́ть"
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          "roman": "sostojátʹsja",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "состоя́ться"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vzroslétʹ",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
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          "word": "взросле́ть"
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          "roman": "povzroslétʹ",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
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          "word": "повзросле́ть"
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          "roman": "zamaterétʹ",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
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          "word": "заматере́ть"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "realizovátʹsja",
          "sense": "to reach maturity",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "реализова́ться"
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          "ref": "1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 12, in Jimmie Higgins",
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          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40",
          "text": "\"We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all,\" Phil explains. \"This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own.\"",
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        "(idiomatic) To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance."
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "word": "alkaa tulla omillaan toimeen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "word": "raggiungere la maturità"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "materétʹ",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "матере́ть"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sostojátʹsja",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "состоя́ться"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vzroslétʹ",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "взросле́ть"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "povzroslétʹ",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "повзросле́ть"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zamaterétʹ",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "заматере́ть"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "realizovátʹsja",
      "sense": "to reach maturity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "реализова́ться"
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