virgin

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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

At midnight on that day, devotees famously sing Las Mañanitas, the traditional birthday song, for the virgin, and set off fireworks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Plus, a handful of emerging start-ups such as Boston Metal say they can go one better and use electricity for the iron-making process, a crucial step in making brand new, or virgin, steel.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

It comes after ministers seized control of British Steel, in Scunthorpe, earlier this year to prevent the last plant in the UK producing virgin steel from closing.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

He bought up a huge portion of Edmonton and built the first real house in town, a vast home surrounded by sprawling acres of virgin countryside.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand