- a variation of purl.
pearl
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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
She wears a pearl-trimmed French hood; a dark, square-necked gown with white lace, gold and pearl trim; a pearl necklace; and, with one exception, a pearl necklace with the pendant initials “AB” or “B.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
“This is not just some sort of reactionary NIMBY-ism or pearl clutching.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
Bilbo laughed, and he produced out of a pocket two beautiful pipes with pearl mouth-pieces and bound with fine-wrought silver.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Watanabe and Knott wondered whether disrupting that framework would make the pearls disappear.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
“He’s wearing pearls and has auburn hair that covers one eye — it’s like a playground for your brain reading that kind of stuff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Dolly Parton, the much-loved US singer-songwriter who has died at the age of 80, was known for her pearls of wisdom and humour as well as her music.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
She wore a pale pink dress and a set of pearls and kept a black purse draped properly over one arm.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Across tens of thousands of tissue images, the researchers repeatedly encountered the same pearled appearance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
It “may very well be” that this pearled shape is the normal state of axons, he says, but more research is needed to come to a definitive answer.
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
When we get to the “2% or less” portion of the label, we find wheat gluten, corn meal, pearled barley, rye, triticale and malted barley flour.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
One night when I had finished reading, Gertrude gave me some trinkets—a pearled comb for my hair and a small looking glass with a crack.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Fishery inspectors relied on local pearling leaders and divers to fill in cartographic blanks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In the late 19th century, Tamara Surani Fernando notes in “Shallow Blue Empire,” this problem of yield confronted the British, who oversaw the trade of three important pearling sites in the Indian Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The researchers also explored what drives and regulates pearling.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
Watanabe had initially seen repeated axon pearling in the nervous system of worms and grew more curious about the structures after a discussion with Swiss scientist Graham Knott, Ph.D.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
My first pearling venture turned out a frost.
From The Second String by Nat Gould
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