virgin

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The difference between extra virgin and refined olive oil largely comes down to how they are produced.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Significantly, Mexico’s virgin has brown skin, a detail not lost on the Indigenous population, today or centuries ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

High energy and labour costs here are two factors, in parallel with the fact that sourcing virgin and recycled plastic from Asia is currently cheaper than buying European recycled plastic.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Power flowed into him from Pallas Athena, whom he invoked as Zeus’s virgin child, and he let fly his heavy spear.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer