Ian Anderson

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

British Musician

Wael Ghonim

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

Egyptian Activist

Remo D'Souza

I would love to make Madhuri Dixit dance. If I do a film with her, it definitely has to be a 'Madhuri Dixit film'. I don't want to cast her in a small role. I will do a full- fledged dance film with her.

Indian Dancer

David Farr

I was very struck by the fact that Robin Hood became increasingly taken over by the middle and upper classes. He starts out a bandit but becomes a fully fledged aristocrat.

American Businessman

Trevor Nunn

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.

English Director

Jonas Blue

I used to follow artistes like David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia a lot before making a full fledged career in EDM... their music inspired me too much.

English Musician

Tony Bellew

Do I beat a fully fledged, fully fit Tyson Fury? Probably not. But do I beat a Tyson Fury that's been out of the ring for two years? Yes.

British Athlete

Ritesh Agarwal

Oyo is not a market place. Oyo is a fully fledged hotel chain that leases and franchises assets.

Indian Businessman

Use 'fledged' when something functions without help, like a startup becoming profitable.

Independence Context

It marks achievement, showing someone or something has reached a new level of development.

Growth Milestone

'Fledged' in this context often suggests meeting all requirements to be considered a full member.

Group Membership

Stresses the legitimacy or official status of someone within a group.

Qualification Emphasis

Primarily used for birds, to indicate when chicks have grown the feathers needed for flight.

Bird Development

Can metaphorically apply to people gaining skills to 'fly' in life or careers.

Not Just Birds

 refuse food and generally drop a little bit of weight when they're getting ready to go and then we attempt the release so we'll take them to a large open space we've got some grass fields here so there's a soft landing if they don't don't successfully fledge and like a lot of the other birds that we rear here we

Small Creatures In Need...

 couple months or so they off they are looking after themselves were there any feeding themselves and during their ad feeding she's just keeping a watchful eye but soon they'll fledged and they'll get bigger and about to fend for themselves and go off and find a mating pair for themselves for their life but

Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...

 take for them to flash and become adults I'll give you that answer at one point on the drive today but tentatively our gas is anything from six months to one year they fledge they'll have wings and they'll be you know almost independent but most important as much as they

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 in Africa they're so rare in Africa we don't have exact information on on on on how long it takes them to fledge and stuff and also in areas where they've been persecuted and there's been a lack of food you often have egg failure so

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 into the water and making it very difficult for these gentoo chicks to fledge so their first swim is not just getting into cold water but it's getting into water where there's these big blocks of ice getting in their way which

The Antarctic's...

 All of these birds have plastic in them now. This is an albatross six months old, ready to fledge -- died, packed with red cigarette lighters. This is not the relationship we are supposed to have with the rest of the world.

What are animals...

 but Thutmose III was a little boy when his father died. Hatshepsut, the dead pharaoh's chief wife and widow, stepped in to help as her stepson's regent but ended up ruling beside him as a fully fledged pharaoh.

The pharaoh that...

 In time, their chicks will fledge. And when the Antarctic autumn is near its end, these adults will walk across the newly-formed ice, to endure yet another winter on the frozen sea.

Leopard Seal Kills...

 in time their chicks will fledge and when the antarctic autumn is near its these adults will walk across the newly formed ice

ONE HOUR Of Amazing...

 their cheeks will fledge and when the Antarctic autumn is nearly 10 these adults will walk across the newly formed