perennial
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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
This image of hero worship anchors Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s staggeringly lovely “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” an indie take on the perennial saga of lost men struggling to return home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
This drone realism is notable because a perennial Washington complaint is that the island buys too many big platforms like fighter jets and isn’t focused enough on an “asymmetric” defense against a larger adversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
It hurt because it made him seem like a perennial candidate and reinforced Graham’s attacks on the five-term congressman as a career politician.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
It is something to do with the younger generation contradicting the efforts of their elders, the perennial parent-child dynamic of human civilisation: ‘whatever they did, we will do the opposite.’
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
These are short-lived perennials that will reseed, and they seem to thrive in dry, nutrient-poor, fast-draining soil where other flowers fade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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
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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