How to Use Occidental in a Sentence

Occidental

noun
  • The century-old Occidental, too, is up for sale at $45 million.
    — Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Berkshire has amassed an almost 28% stake in Occidental.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes, 2024-10-13
  • This series of six canyons cuts through the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range and is popular for hiking and viewing wildlife.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 2024-02-11
  • What's next: The construction around Occidental Park is expected to be completed next year.
    — Melissa Santos, Axios, 2024-10-11
  • Mine, currently, is a back-alley trail that winds through Eagle Rock’s rec center, through the hills and onto the Occidental College campus.
    — Alyssa Bereznak, Los Angeles Times, 2024-11-06
  • Microsoft has bet big on carbon removal, making one of the largest purchases yet in July from oil giant Occidental’s carbon removal project in Texas.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2024-08-06
  • Born in 1960, Rubin was a graduate of Occidental College.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2024-05-10
  • The reasons for Berkshire’s interest are not obvious aside from its existing relationship with Occidental.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2024-06-18
  • Her renovation and expansion within the walls of the old Occidental Petroleum headquarters is without ego.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2023-12-14
  • The company also grew its stake in Occidental Petroleum by almost 9% to about $14.5 million.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 2024-02-26
  • Harvard has its ridiculous endowment, Occidental has Hollywood filming location fees.
    — Outside Online, 2024-09-19
  • The local Navy players found some foes of old playing for Occidental, Bishop’s grad Max Stone and Eastlake alum Zane Derrod.
    — Glae Thien, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Alternatively, investors and firms can form joint ventures to invest in specific projects or entities, as Blackrock is in helping Occidental establish the direct air capture plant.
    — Kassia Yanosek, Foreign Affairs, 2023-11-29
  • Exxon Mobil and Occidental Petroleum also gained in premarket trading.
    — Caitlin McCabe, WSJ, 2024-01-12
  • There’s still so much money to be made in fossil fuels, and indeed, oil companies like Occidental Petroleum are investing heavily in carbon removal technologies like direct air capture, in which machines scrub the air of CO2.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 2024-01-10
  • Before long, Schoenberg was working with fellow teachers at Occidental College’s computer science department to develop a machine-learning algorithm that could eventually compose its own original content.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 2024-01-24
  • Stuckey recommends the University of Richmond (#92), Occidental College (#110) and the College of Wooster (#350).
    — Emma Whitford, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Recent Fox 4 reporting states that Aspiria’s owners, Occidental Management LLC, and the Royals affiliate reached an agreement to give the Royals ownership of the site, but both parties said otherwise on Wednesday afternoon.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This emerging method that can remodel the cornea through mild electric potential, known as electromechanical reshaping (EMR), was detailed by researchers from Occidental College and the University of California, Irvine, during the American Chemical Society’s Fall 2025 meeting this week.
    — New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2025

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