Example Sentences

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In 2024, the Tulsa World named her a Tulsan of the Year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Little did I know that working to answer that question would be a life’s calling for this White Tulsan.

From Washington Post • May 28, 2021

About 20 bars and restaurants have popped in the Brady district over the last decade, and downtown supporters credit lifelong Tulsan Elliot Nelson as the primary driver of the growth.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2014

Kaiser, a lifelong Tulsan who Forbes ranked as the 29th richest person in America, says in an e-mail.

From Time • Feb. 5, 2011

Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that in 1966 he was able to pull in a Republican successor, Governor Dewey Bartlett, a Princeton-educated, Roman Catholic Tulsan in a traditionally rural-oriented, Protestant state.

From Time Magazine Archive