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  • a variation of purl.
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pearl

[purl] / pɜrl /
NOUN
gem
Synonyms


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She then recalls a woman from the agency wearing a white coat, a stethoscope and a pearl necklace appearing and taking her daughter.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The name "Pearl Sweet" is a reference to Uganda's nickname as the "pearl of Africa" and the oil's low sulphur content.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

The sailors and pearl divers of the Indian Ocean had intimate understandings of shallow reefs—“vernacular knowledge”—that often aided British endeavors to draw maps and document marine life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

In one, it sat on a tiny plate beside a chilled vermouth cocktail garnished with a pearl onion on a spear.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

Her hair is perfect, and she’s wearing a red holiday sweater, pearl earrings, and a matching pearl necklace.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

Seated across from me, in her pearls and charcoal pantsuit, is Neera Tanden—one of the most accomplished political agents in America, and someone to whom I have just posed a deeply offensive question.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Watanabe and Knott wondered whether disrupting that framework would make the pearls disappear.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

“He’s wearing pearls and has auburn hair that covers one eye — it’s like a playground for your brain reading that kind of stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Now, two years later, Harry Styles walks onto that same floor in pearls and a feather boa, singing about tenderness and change and wanting.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Diana Turbot’s mum screamed as a string of whopping pearls unstringed themselves and bounced under hundreds of feet.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

This altered the pearled structure in both the models and mouse neurons and reduced the speed of electrical signaling.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

The discovery echoes others: Watanabe had noticed similar pearled axons in roundworms in 2013 but didn’t investigate further, and Burkhardt recently saw them in comb jellies.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024

I got more crystals that I could attach to the pearled bib.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

When we get to the “2% or less” portion of the label, we find wheat gluten, corn meal, pearled barley, rye, triticale and malted barley flour.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

Like his mother, he was pearled with damp, and he shook his woollen hat over the stove to make the drops jump and spit.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Along the warm, brackish waters of the Persian Gulf, drilling rigs now overlook old pearling grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Fishery inspectors relied on local pearling leaders and divers to fill in cartographic blanks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Mitochondrial pearling is a temporary shape change in which mitochondria form a structure that looks like beads on a string.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

The researchers also explored what drives and regulates pearling.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

It was a long epistle, and in it he gave her an account of his adventures with the pearling schooners.

From The Second String by Nat Gould


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