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never having had sexual relations encouraged the virgin youths to remain chaste

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Recent Examples of virgin
Adjective
Founders Iris Alonzo and Carolina Crespo pioneered two sustainable supply chains that transform existing cotton waste streams into world-first basics, eliminating the use of any virgin raw materials. Josh Max, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 As environmental regulations tighten and consumer attention on sustainability increases, the fashion industry is moving away from traditional linear production models and adopting more innovative, circular approaches that focus on lowering the need for new, virgin materials. Sj Studio, Sourcing Journal, 27 Sep. 2024
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Fittingly for a children’s comedy (albeit one that hinges on characters being virgins), the centuries-old vampire resembles a Scooby-Doo villain in his utter inability to outsmart a group of latchkey kids. 17. Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024 In Immaculate, Sydney Sweeney stars as Sister Cecilia, who becomes a holy figure to her fellow nuns when she’s found to be pregnant despite being a virgin. Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for virgin 
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Adjective
  • Her approach is a clean break from the 19th-century tradition of American landscape art, in which de facto propagandists like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole depicted land as radiant and virginal, the birthright of any colonial buccaneer drunk on Manifest Destiny.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Depp goes beyond Ellen’s virginal purity to complicate our understanding of this character’s relationship to darkness — how she is at once disturbed by and deeply intimate with it.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The pristine German college town of Tübingen flourishes today, in stark contrast to its dark past.
    Eve Glover, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Getaway Enjoy the Outdoors Hit the Beach With 2.5 miles of Atlantic Ocean-fronting shoreline, Sullivan’s Island’s main draw is its pristine shoreline, a wide sandy stretch prime for sandcastle-building and sunbathing.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 25 Jan. 2025
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  • Our second most-clicked cleaning story of the year focuses on restoring silver jewelry, and the difference between sterling silver and pure silver.
    Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2025
  • This design was first launched in yellow gold with a silver dial, and this configuration remains the purest expression of the asymmetrical concept.
    Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena, Italy.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The other nine—Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island and Navassa Island—are uninhabited outlying islands.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket streaks into orbit after launching from the Kennedy Space Center on its maiden flight, at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 16, 2025.
    Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The favourite to replace him is ex-Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso, who is considered to be one of Europe's hottest tacticians for winning Bayer Leverkusen its maiden Bundesliga crown in 2023/2024.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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  • Now, Trump has four years of White House experience while Vance is a novice.
    Roy Brownell, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Apart from Musk’s most loyal sycophants, the build was almost universally ridiculed as the work of a complete novice.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The move drew swift criticism online, as the brand has long presented itself as a safe haven for unmarried couples.
    Esha Mitra, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Although the history of Ireland’s treatment of unmarried women and their children is violent and bleak, the novella, like Bill’s life, is characterized by ordinary, small moments of love.
    Amanda Parrish Morgan, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • The chaste, optimistic, and conciliatory Tim Scott represents the polar opposite of Donald Trump’s apocalyptic cynicism.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The film is a lot less magical: Mother hosts a rather chaste art show at a local gallery featuring paintings and sculptures of women and dogs.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024

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“Virgin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virgin. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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