perennial
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In England there is a perennial debate around English identity but a consensus around the constitutional membership of the UK.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
He is "a political veteran and perennial presidential prospect with name recognition few in his party can match," Gi-Wook Shin, a sociology professor at Stanford University, told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The emergence of new fiscal concerns abroad has also revived perennial anxieties that the world is becoming swamped with bonds—thanks in large part to massive borrowing by the U.S. government.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
It’s a perennial pathogen, highly contagious and extremely deadly, and its occasional flareups could threaten a global disaster.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
I worried at times that my crocus was too elaborate a bloom, not a common perennial but a hothouse flower, a hybrid named by its originator like a rose.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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