Perlis
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Still, Perlis breaks the flow just enough to offer a few reasons why the region became America’s affluent bohemia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Charles Ives’s remarkable orchestral work “The Fourth of July” was, as film composer Bernard Herrmann told oral historian Vivien Perlis, intended as more than a mere poetic impression of an occasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
In the states of Kelantan and Perlis, rescue teams waded through knee-deep floodwaters to evacuate residents in areas where rising waters had cut off access to roads.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
"As of Monday, the Malaysian and Thai authorities found 36 bodies, cumulatively," Romli Mustafa, MMEA's director in Kedah and Perlis, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
In the second study, researchers led by Roy H. Perlis, PhD, at Harvard Medical School, focused on a particular genetic risk locus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2023
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