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  • a variation of purl.
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pearl

[purl] / pɜrl /
NOUN
gem
Synonyms


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At Meituan’s headquarters, Cheng ordered pearl milk tea on her phone, delivered by drone, before the company’s chairman, Wang Xing, presented her with the kangaroo mascot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

She then recalls a woman from the agency wearing a white coat, a stethoscope and a pearl necklace appearing and taking her daughter.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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

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

They came in their hundreds, silver and white and pearl.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

The 30-year-old curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario had been scrutinizing a portrait of a young Black woman bedecked in jewels and wearing a shimmering blue gown with pearls around her neck and wrists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Watanabe and Knott wondered whether disrupting that framework would make the pearls disappear.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Now, two years later, Harry Styles walks onto that same floor in pearls and a feather boa, singing about tenderness and change and wanting.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

I am too proud to eavesdrop, and so I could only wedge myself into the pearls, avoiding the hatpins, with Camilla’s garnet ring gouging into my back and Beatrice’s nose in my ear.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Across tens of thousands of tissue images, the researchers repeatedly encountered the same pearled appearance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

Others are sequined, feathered, fringed, beaded, buttoned, ruched and pearled.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

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

Nor do they show that pearling has identical effects on signaling throughout the human brain.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Live-cell imaging showed that pearling events can happen several times per minute.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

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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