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annually

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    From annual + -ly.

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    annually (not comparable)

    1. Once every year without fail, yearly
      The Sunshine Festival is held annually, at the end of May.
      • 1957 July, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, page 456:
        The cult of the holiday camp has brought seasonal expresses to fresh destinations such as Penychain, in North Wales; over 250,000 people go by train annually to Butlin's holiday camps alone.
      • 2015 July 9, “First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI, archived from the original on 4 February 2023:
        Minimum age of Maiasaura individuals was determined by counting the number of annually deposited lines of arrested growth (see [10 –12 ] for descriptions of skeletochronology methods).
      • (Can we date this quote?), “RAP Benefits for Pavement Owners”, in National Asphalt Pavement Association[2], archived from the original on 21 March 2025, page 1:
        89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.

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