as in gem
someone or something unusually desirable
friends who agree that his new bride is a real pearl
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as in to diamond
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Recent Examples of pearl
Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
The world was her oyster, lower Manhattan her pearl.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Sophie Egan, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
Instagram: @juliaclancy Email: food@sfchronicle.com Fresh-Herb Matzo Ball Soup Serves 4 to 6
Changing water into fat-pearled, herb-laced, deeply fragrant broth was one of the first acts of magic taught to me in cooking.
—Julia Clancy, SFChronicle.com, 5 Feb. 2020
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Noun
Wearing a custom pastel blue JW Anderson gown with feathers and pearls and her signature blond hair in a cloud of curls, Carpenter, arrived at the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles for the 67th Grammy Awards ceremony.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
The world was her oyster, lower Manhattan her pearl.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
Even grains like sorghum and farro may not necessarily be whole since they are frequently pearled.
—Sophie Egan, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020
Instagram: @juliaclancy Email: food@sfchronicle.com Fresh-Herb Matzo Ball Soup Serves 4 to 6
Changing water into fat-pearled, herb-laced, deeply fragrant broth was one of the first acts of magic taught to me in cooking.
—Julia Clancy, SFChronicle.com, 5 Feb. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pearl
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This fun comedy is a hidden gem on the streamer starring Eddie Murphy as real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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While different age demographics tend to want different things out of their vacation destinations, travelers of all ages can appreciate a hidden gem.—
Meghan Overdeep,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2025
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The material is a synthetic form of aluminum oxide, one of the hardest substances second only to diamond.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
19 Dec. 2024
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Mali has other natural resources that Moroccan industries could eye for extraction, such as gold, uranium, iron ore, and possibly diamonds. FROM FEZ TO TIMBUKTU Only time will tell whether Morocco’s relationship with Mali will be that of an equal partner or a satellite.—
Vish Sakthivel,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2014
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Remember the silver beaded Bob Mackie dress Madonna wore to the Oscars in 1991?—
Abby Aguirre,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2025
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Guillermo also brought props with him, including a dad body pillow for Mahomes, New Orleans beads with his face on it for Travis Kelce and an NFL football that was turned into a Magic 8-ball.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2025
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Weaving a fascination for lace A delicate jewel among textiles, lace is an elegant and deceptively simple creation whose appeal has been spun for centuries.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2025
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For a player who switched East Rutherford, New Jersey, for the City of Brotherly Love in the offseason, Barkley has been the jewel in the Eagles’ NFC crown and the engine of their winning machine this year, so much so that he was named as a finalist for this year’s NFL Most Valuable Player award.—
Ben Morse,
CNN,
4 Feb. 2025
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The night culminated with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere 12 feet in diameter and weighing almost six tons descended from its lofty perch atop One Times Square.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 Jan. 2023
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And young people are innovating outside that sphere as well, including Southern-gothic singer-songwriter Ethel Cain and art-rockers Geese.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
6 June 2022
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Sandler and Barrymore took home the prize for Best On-Screen Team that year at what was then called the MTV Movie Awards.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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There is a prize pool of $1.8 million, with each player on the championship team receiving $125,000, each player on the runner-up receiving $50,000 and each player on the the other two teams receiving $25,000.—
Dan Loumena,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Some lumped together threats of mass violence with a number of other disciplinary offenses, inflating the numbers.—
Aliyya Swaby,
ProPublica,
28 Jan. 2025
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Yet while some saw it as preferable to the old system, the term Hispanic still lumped together very different populations.—
Jane Hong / Made by History,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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There’s an old gold vault just outside of Washington, D.C., that holds the kind of (national) treasures most film nerds can only dream of seeing.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2025
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The Goonies followed a group of Oregonian kids who raced against the menacing Fratelli family to find pirate treasure and save their houses from foreclosure.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Pearl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pearl. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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