as in yearly
occurring once every year
Much of the city's elite attend the museum's annual gala, and it has grown in prominence with each passing year. The couple had booked a cruise for their annual vacation away from the kids.
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as in yearbook
a book or magazine that is published once a year
The society releases an annual that includes all the proceedings of its meetings during the year
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Recent Examples of annual
Connie Ogle
july 3,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2026
He’ll also be required to pay annual property taxes, and the Unified Government will use those funds to pay out remaining bond debt, totaling more than $6 million, taken out to initially build the property.
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Sofi Zeman
july 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2026
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
30 June 2026
One way to garner interest is to create a multi-layered garden with a mix of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, groundcovers and bulbs.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2026
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Adjective
Last month, 50 Best Pizza released its annual lists of the best pizzerias in the United States.
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Connie Ogle
july 3,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2026
He’ll also be required to pay annual property taxes, and the Unified Government will use those funds to pay out remaining bond debt, totaling more than $6 million, taken out to initially build the property.
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Sofi Zeman
july 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 July 2026
Noun
Deadheading helps these annuals last all summer long and keeps them looking neat.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
30 June 2026
One way to garner interest is to create a multi-layered garden with a mix of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, groundcovers and bulbs.
—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annual
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In June, the bellowing and blubbery 5-year-old mammal hauled himself onto land for his twice-yearly tour of beachside towns in southern Tasmania state after months of feeding at sea.
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The combined $235,000 spent so far is about the yearly salary of three or four mid-level employees.
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The South Beach school’s 1975-‘76 yearbook was a patriotic red, white and blue and illustrations of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the American Eagle.
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Her mother has become a fan but didn’t start out that way, unaware her high school had a soccer team until Garbowski went snooping in an old yearbook.
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The scene caused Los Angeles Magazine publisher Christopher Gialanella to flee the event with promotional copies of the monthly under his arm, said a source.
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The monthlies aren’t that bad for an Upper West Side condo — $1,892 — and get you a 24-hour doorman, a fitness center, bike storage, laundry room, and access to a courtyard.
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Without a C-suite sponsor empowered to align incentives, tie outcomes to compensation and resolve trade-offs quarterly, AI becomes a mosaic of local optimizations rather than a source of enterprise differentiation.
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Tuesday’s earnings marked Live Nation’s first quarterly since the antitrust decision last month, where a jury determined that the company violated antitrust laws and functioned as a monopoly.
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Roughly two-thirds of American households own their primary residence, according to the Federal Survey of Consumer Finances from 2022, the most recent edition.
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The Venice Film Festival will pay tribute to nonagenarian Italian director Tinto Brass at its upcoming edition with a pre-opening screening of his London-shot 1967 pop thriller Deadly Sweet starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin.
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After dropping out of high school in 1922, Ed Link followed his father into the family business, learning how bellows and pneumatic pressure—the guts of organs—could be made to simulate movement.
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Turistas followed a group of American tourists who encounter an organ trafficking operation while backpacking in Brazil.
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Many people layer the two, using a bond-builder weekly and a gloss every couple of weeks.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.
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Roughly 1 million people use Facebook Dating’s AI assistant daily in the United States and Canada, Meta said.
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One resident of Sevastopol told CNN the city air raid alerts had become more regular in recent weeks, with several daily.
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“Annual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annual. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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