First recorded in 1625–35; Virgini(a) + -an
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While putting herself through college, she discovered that a Virginian could legally sell up to six cars a year without a business license.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
“We’re the Wall Street of the data centre industry,” says Ms Bolthouse, who is a director of local Virginian charity and campaign group Piedmont Environmental Council.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024
The former coach, a native West Virginian, is a longtime friend of retiring Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and endorsed him in his 2018 reelection.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2024
“It is important that we resolve these issues as soon as reasonably practical as Governor Youngkin believes that every eligible Virginian should exercise his or her right to vote,” Goettman added.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023
One of them said that it would be a nice time to bury the novel, now that a Virginian, one hundred years after Appomattox, had written Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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