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Synonyms for pearl

someone or something considered exceptionally precious

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Synonyms for pearl

a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster

a shade of white the color of bleached bones

a shape that is spherical and small

Synonyms

gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean

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Live music makes up for more than half of the show, and there are some pearlers in there, including a spot on, near the knuckle take on modern day boybands, where the first line of the song is simply "Jason Derulo".
Two absolute pearlers from the left-arm spinner - who taunted his opponents last week by claiming they would not live with the Outlaws - snaked past the outside edges of the two set batsmen Chris Cooke and Jim Allenby to disrupt the timber and send them tumbling from 108-2.
Dhoni's insistence that the matches be played on "rank turners" has not helped Tendulkar's cause this series, and he struggled like a novice against Monty Panesar in Mumbai, though he did get two pearlers."
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The lyrics show some clout too with pearlers such as "when you're looking all around but you just don't see'' and "when time moves faster than the bullet of a gun'' showing he's a thinker as well as a music mover and shaker.
Sweeney gave Pools the lead and they were rock-solid for over an hour before suffering a 4-1 third round defeat, with the Championship Hornets scoring a couple of pearlers as their forwards cut in from the touchline.