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a book or magazine that is published once a year
The society releases an annual that includes all the proceedings of its meetings during the year
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Recent Examples of annuals
In the immediate vicinity of the dahlias, stick with annuals.
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Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 June 2026
Young, tender annuals frequently show heat stress while they are getting established in the garden.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
Very few summer annuals offer such a variety of colors and shapes of flowers as zinnias.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
17 June 2026
To attract pollinators, try growing a variety of nectar-rich annuals and perennials that will blossom at different times throughout spring and summer.
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Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
15 June 2026
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
20 June 2026
Young, tender annuals frequently show heat stress while they are getting established in the garden.
—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
20 June 2026
Very few summer annuals offer such a variety of colors and shapes of flowers as zinnias.
—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
17 June 2026
To attract pollinators, try growing a variety of nectar-rich annuals and perennials that will blossom at different times throughout spring and summer.
—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annuals
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Its skin and organs contain a powerful neurotoxin that can cause heart failure in humans if consumed.
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The eggs hatch, burrow into the bloodstream, and then go wandering around, embedding in various tissues, muscles, and organs, including the brain.
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The center’s resources—all free—include more than a million books and periodicals, with 400 terminals and 75 staff members available to help dig through them.
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Galaxy, Analog, and Amazing Stories, those three periodicals – and our bathroom was piled high.
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Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations.
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The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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Meanwhile, Kapital developed medical drama Vital Signs with Tanen at ABC and Dead Letters with Unwell at Netflix with Lucy Hale attached to star and sold two other Thompson books to Peacock and Netflix.
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On summer breaks during college, Pughsley got a gig selling books door-to-door in rural Iowa.
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Growing up in Miami, he was surrounded by newspapers and television news.
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In letters published in the Nottingham newspapers, workers appealed to trade masters to stop their labor practices.
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Several companies have begun to supply bite-sized dramas and serials for venues like TikTok or Meta’s Reels.
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This book got its start as part of the SCP Wiki, a collaborative writing space about fictional paranormal items and entities studied scientifically, and a lot of your previous works have been released as web serials.
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“Annuals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annuals. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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