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adjective

Definition of annualnext
as in yearly
occurring once every year Much of the city's elite attend the museum's annual gala, and it has grown in prominence with each passing year. The couple had booked a cruise for their annual vacation away from the kids.

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noun

as in yearbook
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 annual
Adjective
The annual American Farm Bureau Federation Fourth of July cookout survey estimates a four percent price increase from last year. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026 The spots will air during NBC’s coverage on Saturday night of the annual fireworks spectacular over New York’s Hudson River. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 July 2026
Noun
Deadheading helps these annuals last all summer long and keeps them looking neat. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 June 2026 If your perennials and annuals get long and leggy with few flowers, or your shrubs put out long suckers that shoot straight up, your plants are reaching for more sun. — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 29 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for annual
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annual
  1. yearly
  2. yearbook
  3. monthly
  4. quarterly
  5. edition
  6. organ
  7. weekly
  8. daily
Adjective
  • In June, the bellowing and blubbery 5-year-old mammal hauled himself onto land for his twice-yearly tour of beachside towns in southern Tasmania state after months of feeding at sea.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • The combined $235,000 spent so far is about the yearly salary of three or four mid-level employees.
    — Alexandra Phelps July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
Definition of yearly
Noun
  • The South Beach school’s 1975-‘76 yearbook was a patriotic red, white and blue and illustrations of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the American Eagle.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • Her mother has become a fan but didn’t start out that way, unaware her high school had a soccer team until Garbowski went snooping in an old yearbook.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Definition of yearbook
Noun
  • The scene caused Los Angeles Magazine publisher Christopher Gialanella to flee the event with promotional copies of the monthly under his arm, said a source.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The monthlies aren’t that bad for an Upper West Side condo — $1,892 — and get you a 24-hour doorman, a fitness center, bike storage, laundry room, and access to a courtyard.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of monthly
Noun
  • Without a C-suite sponsor empowered to align incentives, tie outcomes to compensation and resolve trade-offs quarterly, AI becomes a mosaic of local optimizations rather than a source of enterprise differentiation.
    — Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
  • Tuesday’s earnings marked Live Nation’s first quarterly since the antitrust decision last month, where a jury determined that the company violated antitrust laws and functioned as a monopoly.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2026
Definition of quarterly
Noun
  • For today’s Monday edition of The Best Stocks in the Market, Sean wanted to take a look at some good stocks in bad sectors.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 6 July 2026
  • After confirming on Sunday that this would be his final World Cup, Ronaldo and Portugal fell 1-0 to Spain in the latest edition of the Iberian Derby in the round of 16.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 July 2026
Definition of edition
Noun
  • After dropping out of high school in 1922, Ed Link followed his father into the family business, learning how bellows and pneumatic pressure—the guts of organs—could be made to simulate movement.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
  • Turistas followed a group of American tourists who encounter an organ trafficking operation while backpacking in Brazil.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
Definition of organ
Noun
  • Many people layer the two, using a bond-builder weekly and a gloss every couple of weeks.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
  • Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 29 June 2026
Definition of weekly
Noun
  • Roughly 1 million people use Facebook Dating’s AI assistant daily in the United States and Canada, Meta said.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
  • One resident of Sevastopol told CNN the city air raid alerts had become more regular in recent weeks, with several daily.
    — Zahra Ullah, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
Definition of daily

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“Annual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annual. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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