pearls
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They had allowed her to take a tile after another player had already grabbed it—technically a no-no—but Impellizzeri, 55 and wearing pearls as big as martini olives, was having none of it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
He would repay her with pearls of wisdom from more than four decades of coaching college basketball and a dozen trips to the Final Four.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
He has also mocked allies uneasy about the widening conflict, referring to those who "wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force."
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
Tapioca pearls have appeared on imaging scans of patients who were hospitalized for unrelated reasons.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
He had never hunted tigers in India, or climbed the peaks of the Himalayas, or dived for pearls in the South Seas.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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