NOUN: "a stage in development (as of a person or thing)" Crossword Clue

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NOUN: "a stage in development (as of a person or thing)" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
2. a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DEVELOPMENT (noun)
1. processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
2. the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
PERSON (noun)
1. a human being
2. a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

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