virgin

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In 2025, their data also showed a slight increase in labelling fraud, such as olive oil labelled falsely as being extra virgin, or non-organic crops marked as organic.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 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

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

Plastic recycling plant closures are affecting the US as well, also prompted by the low price of virgin plastic, causing the country to miss its recycled content targets, as S&P Global reports.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan