annually

[an-yoo-uh-lee]

adverb

1. once a year; each year.

   The school’s Harvest Dance has been held annually, on the first Saturday of October, for more than 125 years.

Word History and Origins

Origin of annually¹

First recorded in 1580–1600; annual ( def. ) + -ly ( def. )

Example Sentences

Before the 2018-19 trade war, China regularly imported 30 million to 36 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually — more than one-third of all American soybean exports.

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Ghana exports an average of 78,000 metric tons of cocoa beans to the United States annually.

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When the fare rises to $3 in January, it will have climbed an average of 1.7% annually over the past decade, below the city’s inflation rate.

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St. John, who now lives in Fayetteville, Ark., pays $900 annually to store them at a Texas clinic near where she previously lived.

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The survey, which has been conducted annually since 2021, was based on roughly 20,000 people across the country who were surveyed between June and August of this year, before the government shutdown.

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