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  • a variation of purl.
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pearl

[purl] / pɜrl /
NOUN
gem
Synonyms


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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

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

The "Walcot Wiggle" is taking place within the headwaters of the River Clun - parts of which support internationally important species like the freshwater pearl mussel.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

“This is not just some sort of reactionary NIMBY-ism or pearl clutching.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 21, 2026

“Just how crazy is he?” asked Jesper, fingers drumming on the pearl handles of his revolvers.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

He debuted the offbeat experimental musical in fishnets and pearls in 1973 on the tiny stage upstairs at the Royal Court Theater in London, where it first became an underground sensation.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

And I’ll make my financial case for how I justified writing a lump-sum check to a travel agency so large that I could picture my bank account clutching its proverbial pearls.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

The portrait features an Indian woman in a formal pose, wearing a string of pearls, a large emerald pendant and a nose ring.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

His Bedouin ancestors earned great wealth pearl diving—until foreign farmed pearls tanked the market and left the local economy in shambles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Aware that each perfectly structured topiary, every detail down to the stones that line the paths like pearls, must have been planned.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

To start, take pearled farro and simmer it with fresh apple cider, bay leaves and salt in a saucepan.

From Salon Jan. 17, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

In the late 19th century, Tamara Surani Fernando notes in “Shallow Blue Empire,” this problem of yield confronted the British, who oversaw the trade of three important pearling sites in the Indian Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

"Since Margaret Reed Lewis first sketched mitochondrial pearling in 1915, it has largely been dismissed as an anomaly linked to cellular stress," says Landoni.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

Understanding how mitochondrial pearling works and how it is controlled could provide important insights into diseases linked to mtDNA.

From Science Daily Apr. 13, 2026

"I have something more in his line than pearling."

From The Second String by Nat Gould




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