EVERY YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does every year mean? 

• EVERY YEAR (adverb)
  The adverb EVERY YEAR has 1 sense:

1. without missing a year

  Familiarity information: EVERY YEAR used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVERY YEAR (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without missing a year

Synonyms:

annually; each year; every year; yearly

Context example:

they travel to China annually

 Context examples 

Thousands of stars are born there every year, compared to just one in our own Milky Way.

(Ancient Galaxy Megamergers, ESO)

"We may start seeing a new object every year. That’s when we’ll start to know whether 'Oumuamua is weird, or common."

('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)

Trees growing in floodplains surrounding the Amazon river emit up to 20 million tonnes of methane gas (CH4) to the atmosphere every year.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the ocean.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

The team analyzed a subset of patients whose brains had been scanned once every year for 10 years or longer.

(Smoldering spots in the brain may signal severe multiple sclerosis, National Institutes of Health)

The study, the largest ever done on breast cancer treatment, could spare about 70,000 American women from having to undergo the toxic treatment every year.

(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)

Most cases can be successfully treated, but nearly 1 million still die of the disease every year, including about 800,000 children under age 5 in Sub-Saharan Africa.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Urban parks help improve the air quality, filtering out toxic pollutants that kill scores of people every year.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Its seeds are a major export from many producing countries in Central and South America, Africa, and Asia — but every year, 30% to 40% of pre-harvest yield is lost to diseases.

(New way to identify disease-resistant genes in chocolate-producing trees, National Science Foundation)

Nearly 1 million people die of malaria every year.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)