annually

adverb

an·​nu·​al·​ly ˈan-yə(-wə)-lē 

-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

Examples of annually in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Production plans call for an initial deployment of dozens of units this year, scaling to thousands annually as manufacturing capacity expands. —Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 16 Mar. 2026

Lightning hits the United States approximately 25 million times annually. —Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2026

At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland. —Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026

Building, removing, and storing these structures annually requires time and expense. —Mike Flynn, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1555, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for annually

• manually