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perennial

[puh-ren-ee-uhl] / pəˈrɛn i əl /


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Black moptop over a face lined like a well-traveled map, and a jacket with the collar turned up against the perennial winter of cinematic 1970s New York City.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Despite featuring and scoring for a Hellas Verona side heading for relegation from Serie A, and with a perennial problem of strikers not firing regularly for Scotland, Kieron Bowie was overlooked.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Its suggestiveness has made music a subject of perennial fascination to novelists, who work with a very different tool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

While surprises are always possible, Rosen predicts a major awards haul for "Widow's Bay," surpassing all competitors including the final season of the perennial favorite "Hacks."

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Some are shifting to Mediterranean plants, Bennellick said, "more grasses, more herbaceous perennials that can survive the drought conditions".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

More than 250 varieties of plants, particularly grasses and perennials, are present here, arranged across seven gardens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025

He has had a decent start to the season with Lancashire but has still been putting in the hours amid the perennials.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

Parts of the garden are sloped, like a raked stage where mossy groundcovers and harmonious compositions of shade- and sun-loving perennials perform.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

The air had died in the cypresses in the courtyard, in the pale trappings of the bedrooms, in the dripping archways of the garden of perennials.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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