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Olympic Peninsula

British  

noun

  1. a large peninsula of W Washington

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A new study published Wednesday in Current Biology found that on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, vehicle collisions with deer fall by as much as 76 percent in areas highly frequented by mountain lions.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Noah Neustadt, a Montreal-based user-experience designer for a U.S. software company, spends his spare time browsing farmland listings in British Columbia and Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

In dozens of interviews across this lush slice of the Olympic Peninsula, support for the two was just about evenly split.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2024

The other one is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and the county is Clallam, where I focused on a small town called Sequim.

From Salon Sep. 3, 2024

If the Olympic Peninsula truly is heart medicine for them, considering what happened in their childhoods.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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