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  • a variation of purl.
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pearl

[purl] / pɜrl /
NOUN
gem
Synonyms


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Catherine wore a pair of Diana's pearl drop earrings to the premiere on Tuesday, as well as the late Queen Mother's amethyst sautoir necklace.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

She wears a pearl-trimmed French hood; a dark, square-necked gown with white lace, gold and pearl trim; a pearl necklace; and, with one exception, a pearl necklace with the pendant initials “AB” or “B.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

But it was the grit that grew a pearl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Woo turns to us, clutching the dashiki to his chest like a pearl necklace.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

That is the thing we should be clutching our pearls about.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

However, bigger pearls did not invariably mean faster signals.

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

She carefully opened it and pulled out a long strand of pinkish-colored pearls.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Alongside the pearled axons, they found evidence of ultrafast endocytosis, a process through which nerve endings quickly retrieve membrane after releasing chemical messages.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

It “may very well be” that this pearled shape is the normal state of axons, he says, but more research is needed to come to a definitive answer.

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

Here’s how she added heft without too many more steps: First, you’ll boil some lentils in a pot of salted water, and when they’re about halfway done, you’ll add pearled couscous.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2022

The dragonflies’ wings were pearled with mist, like cobwebs, and from time to time they’d beat them quickly to clear them, because the drops must make them heavy, Lyra thought.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

They also observed pearling with high resolution imaging of living neurons, providing evidence that it was not simply produced by freezing the samples.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ms. Fernando struck upon the premise of her research after joining some Sri Lankan naturalists to document the flora and fauna of the Gulf of Mannar, which once constituted the British Crown’s richest pearling grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Watanabe had initially seen repeated axon pearling in the nervous system of worms and grew more curious about the structures after a discussion with Swiss scientist Graham Knott, Ph.D.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

They had no news of the pearling fleet, but this was not to be expected, as there were very few means of communication.

From The Second String by Nat Gould


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