annually

adverb

an·​nu·​al·​ly ˈan-yə(-wə)-lē How to pronounce annually (audio)
-yü-ə-
: once a year : each year
an event that occurs annually
a report that's published annually
She spends about $1,000 of her own money annually on additional supplies, and doesn't hesitate to let the children know it.Michael Winerip
More than 300,000 Americans undergo angioplasty annually to open clogged heart arteries and relieve chest pain.Melissa Williams

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Why should New Yorkers pay more than half a billion dollars annually just to get rid of trash and make other communities sick? Justin Sanchez, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026 No wonder that, in the 1940s, France produced ~2B gallons of wine annually, while the US made ~150m gallons. Mark Dent, HubSpot, 15 May 2026 The city and the theater had an agreement to lease the Old Bedford School for $10 annually. Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026 There's also this kind of obscure program referred to as DL2, the Demand Letter 2 program that annually targets dealers that sold the most number of guns over 25 that were recovered at crime scenes or in a crime in a short time to crime period. Dana Taylor, USA Today, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for annually

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1555, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of annually was circa 1555

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“Annually.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annually. Accessed 17 May. 2026.

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