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Olean

American  
[oh-lee-an] / ˌoʊ liˈæn /

noun

  1. a city in SW New York.


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Kudrin said Olean didn’t speak of her experiences in Japan, and his wife, Liz, was too young to remember anything.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

Authorities had even searched waterways to see if he had fallen into the Allegheny River, the Olean Times Herald reported.

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

After the Olean Times Herald covered the project, Dittman got a call from another elderly man, now blind, who had searched as well.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2018

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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