pearl
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Catherine wore a pair of Diana's pearl drop earrings to the premiere on Tuesday, as well as the late Queen Mother's amethyst sautoir necklace.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
After the first oil discoveries in the Persian Gulf during the 20th century, former pearl divers found more reliable employment under oil companies, as “one single-commodity economy replaced another.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
To get the dragon’s pearl, they would have to ask to see the king, which, Pinmei suspected, would result in mocking laughter.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
However, bigger pearls did not invariably mean faster signals.
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
Just as the music stopped, Camilla’s string of pearls broke.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Related research has since documented pearled axons in human brain tissue, extending the observations beyond mice.
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
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
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
Along the warm, brackish waters of the Persian Gulf, drilling rigs now overlook old pearling grounds.
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
Understanding how mitochondrial pearling works and how it is controlled could provide important insights into diseases linked to mtDNA.
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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