perennially
Americanadverb
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perpetually, repeatedly, or continually; throughout the year or years.
For our main dish I suggest salmon, which is perennially popular.
Many rural dwellers are not located along perennially flowing river channels.
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year after year, without needing to be replanted.
Chives are a member of the onion (allium) family and grow perennially.
Etymology
Origin of perennially
Example Sentences
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That’s left opportunities for outsize achievement for a government perennially hunting for propaganda victories and international prestige.
Comcast opted to cast off the still-profitable cable channels, except for the perennially popular Bravo!, as Wall Street has soured on the business, which has been contracting amid a consumer shift to streaming.
From Los Angeles Times
The military is perennially short on pilots, and what animates most young men and women to sign up certainly isn’t the pay or the itinerant lifestyle.
The product of an upper-middle-class family and a so-so college, nose perennially pressed to the window—and to the grindstone—she is a workhorse.
Bismarck has changed a lot; it feels more corporate and less personal — as well as perennially under construction.
From Salon
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