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virgin

adjective as in unspoiled

noun as in person who has not had sex

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The company will ship cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil directly to your door, along with information about the grove and farmer.

Because the protected areas are off-limits to the wide-scale clearing that has created lucrative palm oil plantations across Borneo, villagers often cut and sell the virgin trees.

He drove us out to the convention the following night, cracking wise about virgins and nerds.

In the 1950s and 1960s, only a quarter of men and less than half of women were virgins at age 19.

From Ozy

Investment in new technologies goes up, but investment in virgin production and conversion are sharply reduced.

From Vox

The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!

And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.

Are we going to see you on a Virgin Galactic or SpaceX flight in the future?

It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.

Her long-term boyfriend Dave Clark is head of ‘astronaut relations’ for Virgin Galactic.

The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”

I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.

She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?

The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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