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Olean

American  
[oh-lee-an] / ˌoʊ liˈæn /

noun

  1. a city in SW New York.


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“I fed them to my children, and only then would they stop crying for a while,” Olean once told an interviewer.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2023

"It feels good to know he’s home safe," Olean resident Jeremy Koch said.

From Fox News May 20, 2021

The abandoned well lies in the forests of Olean, New York, which was an oil boomtown at the turn of the 20th century.

From Reuters Jun. 16, 2020

Before his Batavia posting, Anderson had been regional editor for a group of GateHouse Media newspapers and a bureau chief for the Olean Times Herald in Olean, New York.

From Washington Times Oct. 15, 2019

The son of Italian immigrants, he had come into the world in Olean, New York, on January 26, 1917, eleven and a half pounds of baby under black hair as coarse as barbed wire.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

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