How to Use Iberian in a Sentence

Iberian

1 of 2 adjective
  • The Grand Canyon of Iberian wine.
    — John Noakes, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
  • This is what gives the Iberian ham that melt-in-the-mouth texture.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The team kept colonies of Iberian harvester ants in artificial nests in its lab.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists are intrigued that this behavior occurred so far away from the Iberian orcas.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • There were many with Portuguese accents and backgrounds, yes, but even more seemed to be from well beyond the Iberian peninsula.
    — Sergio Gonzalez, New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • Since then, there have been more than 500 reports of orca encounters off the Iberian peninsula.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Off the Iberian coast of Europe, the orcas collaborated and taught each other how to sink the yachts of the superrich.
    — Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Aug. 2023
  • About the Iberian orcas While they are called killer whales, orcas are actually the largest member of the dolphin family.
    — USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • Both the Iberian mole and the star-nosed mole have a piece of DNA inverted in a region that’s key to the regulation of this gene.
    — Alejandra Manjarrez, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • One of their organizers, White Gladis, became an internet folk hero with her actions off the Iberian coast.
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • More about the Iberian orcas Orcas, also called killer whales, are actually the largest member of the dolphin family.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • At some point, possibly as early as several million years ago, Iberian harvester ant queens lost the ability to produce their own worker ants, which are female.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Iberian harvester ants were then dependent on Messor structor ants for their survival, forcing the queens to track down males of another species, which is known as sperm parasitism.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The menu has a range of tapas on offer, including mussels, tuna, Spanish tortilla, and Iberian pork—there’s something for everyone here.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Going forward, the team plans to investigate the exact cellular mechanism that results in the cross-species cloning that Iberian harvester queens perform.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The last word on this list is itself a hodgepodge of origins possibly combining both Indian and Iberian predecessors.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Iberian lynxes are found on southwestern Europe's Iberian Peninsula and are often identified by the tufts of fur under their chins.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Right now, Europe’s grid cannot safely absorb a solar surge, as the Iberian blackout demonstrated with devastating clarity.
    — Taco Engelaar, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • The Iberian lynx, for instance, was recently brought back from the edge of extinction thanks to a successful breeding program and measures taken to protect its territory.
    — Catherine Buni, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Other Iberian harvester ant eggs fertilized with Messor structor sperm resulted in hybrid female workers.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Galápago is derived from an old Iberian word that essentially means turtle, although the term was later used to describe a type of saddle, which the tortoises’ shells somewhat resemble.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
  • But as Romanticism swept the Iberian peninsula in the 19th century, neo-Moorish splendor became all the rage.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The Iberian orca is a subpopulation of the Atlantic orca population.
    — USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
  • Last week, however, one of these black-and-white mammals slammed into a yacht between Scotland and Norway, some 2,000 miles away from the Iberian orcas.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • Purcell called the discovery novel, noting that while there are already known and unusual mating systems in ants, Iberian harvester ants are among the weirdest — and present more mysteries yet to be understood.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Almost two months after the Iberian blackout, the four official investigations into the cause haven’t yet released their conclusions, and people are still waiting to know the causes of the blackout.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2025
  • So, the fact that more renewable energy is often more distributed than conventional sources may have contributed to a different reactive power profile on the Iberian grid.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 June 2025
  • In Spain, a 3,000-year-old stone slab is rewriting historians’ understanding of gender roles in Iberian society.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • McCandless travels twice a year to Spain to help with menu development, and the staff participates in weekly wine tastings to test out new products from the Iberian peninsula.
    — Lily O'Neill, The Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The Iberian nation — which saw millions of its citizens leave during and after its civil war — has taken in millions of people from South America and Africa in recent years.
    — Renata Brito, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026

Iberian

2 of 2 noun
  • Some of his cooking, like the pil-pil and the fluke in olive oil, is flat-out Iberian.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 2023-09-19
  • Portugal is having a major moment in the (Iberian) sun.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2024-03-18
  • In recent months, orcas in the waters off the Iberian Peninsula have taken to ramming boats.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 2023-06-17
  • Iberian Offensive – another urban map set in the streets of Gibraltar.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • These items are the first artifacts made of meteoritic iron ever found in the Iberian Peninsula.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-02-20
  • Then there’s the Iberian Series, which explores the effects that maturation in casks from this part of Europe has on the whiskey.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2023-10-01
  • The moles dig subterranean galleries and labyrinths in the meadows of the Iberian Peninsula, especially those with soft soils rich in earthworms, their favorite food.
    — Alejandra Manjarrez, Discover Magazine, 2023-07-28
  • More than three decades later, experts say that a spate of orca encounters with boats near the Iberian Peninsula in recent years could be another one of these orca social trends.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 2023-07-11
  • Since then, there have been more than 500 reports of orca encounters off the Iberian Peninsula: Boats have been spun and pushed, while rudders have been smashed and destroyed.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 2023-06-19
  • After four years and hundreds of incidents, researchers remain puzzled why orcas, also known as killer whales, continue to ram boats – sinking a few of them – along the Iberian Peninsula.
    — USA TODAY, 2023-07-08
  • Their sounds pull from the rich heritage of flamenco, a musical genre born of Gitanos (Romani people) arriving in the Iberian Peninsula.
    — Sophie Yun Mancini, Condé Nast Traveler, 2024-03-26
  • Its menu will feature shareable plates inspired by Reiter’s and Mangin’s love for the Iberian Peninsula, southern France and northern Italy.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Spain and Portugal had their temperature records shattered in 2018 when a mass of hot air moved up from Africa, igniting forest fires in the Iberian Peninsula.
    — Colleen Barry and Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-07-18
  • But since 2020, orca pods have increasingly targeted sailboats off the Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe.
    — Zayna Syed, Popular Science, 2023-06-15
  • The study used radiocarbon dating to date 76 items, including baskets and 22 sandals made from esparto, a kind of grass used in crafts across the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa for thousands of years.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 2023-09-29
  • The pod of whales, which experts believed could contain some 35 members, was already responsible for 23 attacks against yachts by the end of May and continued attacking boats around the Iberian Peninsula until well into August.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 2023-12-24
  • At the time, Benzion was a largely unknown and quasi-mystical interpreter of the Iberian Inquisition—which, for him, represented the perennial efflorescence of antisemitism as a racialized (and hence ineradicable) phenomenon.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 2024-02-15

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