as in gem
someone or something unusually desirable
friends who agree that his new bride is a real pearl
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as in to diamond
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Recent Examples of pearl
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 July 2026
For years, Guerin has held onto his veteran core like a grandmother clutches her third-generation pearls.
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Michael Russo,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Some common options for hanging pots include succulents like burro's tail or string of pearls, trailing lantana, and trailing verbena.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 July 2026
For years, Guerin has held onto his veteran core like a grandmother clutches her third-generation pearls.
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Michael Russo,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
Verb
From stone faces to pearl charm tips, Macmillan’s imagination ran beyond the bounds of natural beauty, marrying organic animation with sculpture techniques.
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Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pearl
Noun
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On the New Jersey artist’s debut album, a steady stream of screwball ideas coalesce into unexpectedly existential laptop twee gems.
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The design features an array of glittery gems across the straps.
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The Desert diamonds product assortment is a contemporary expression of individuality, authenticity and personal style.
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Towering campaign images of Bella Hadid draped in Chopard diamonds wrap portions of the driveway, turning the arrival itself into a luxury advertising campaign.
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The lens has a Ri-Pel coating that allows for water and sweat to bead up and slide off the surface, rather than obscuring vision.
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The house kept the white surface densely beaded and concentrated the softness at the lower skirt, where wispy feathers turned the otherwise clean column into a textural, trumpet shape.
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Aerospace was the crown jewel inside Honeywell and the primary reason many investors owned shares in the conglomerate.
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Earlier in the year that jewel grew significantly in size and scope to include the OMNIA Dayclub & Skybar.
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The night culminated with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere 12 feet in diameter and weighing almost six tons descended from its lofty perch atop One Times Square.
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But with those four, Grande was able to establish her credibility in the fragrance sphere early in her music career.
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Win prizes playing interactive games, network with artists and entrepreneurs and enjoy signature drinks and bar snacks available for purchase.
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When the Allied powers prevailed in World War II, the United States took the ship as a war prize.
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If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV.
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Daxon Rudolph’s offensive upside Carels, Reid, Šmits and Verhoeff are generally viewed as the top-four defensemen in the class, but some scouts lump Daxon Rudolph into the same tier.
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The weekly markets turn to late-season treasure—figs, truffles, chestnuts, cheeses and olives.
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Enola also realizes that Tewkesbury's family must have hidden the gold in Maltese cliff, because Tewkesbury previously told her stories about a treasure hidden there.
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“Pearl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pearl. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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