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Examples of olive branch in a Sentence
The winner extended an olive branch to his opponent by calling him a great player.
Recent Examples of olive branch from the Web
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Most notable, as politics are concerned, is his implicit olive branch to Democrats, who will be in a contest to see who can extract the most sweat from his brow.
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Late night host Jimmy Kimmel is offering an olive branch of sorts to Fox News host Sean Hannity.
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Even Saint-Gaudens’s allegorical figures, such as the Shaw Memorial’s angel carrying olive branches and poppies, symbols of peace and death, have a touch of grit.
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With Americans growing weary of the Vietnam War and increasingly discontent with his leadership, Johnson — in his characteristically solemn style — reiterated why the United States was fighting there and offered an olive branch to North Vietnam.
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After weeks of vocal criticism from each side in the talks and the union’s decision to mount a petition campaign for a referendum on the city charter, Steele sees his proposal as an olive branch.
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Kim extended an olive branch of his own in January, vowing to make improved relations one of his top priorities for the year.
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Alongside tariffs, Beijing plans extend an olive branch to the U.S., which has been calling for better access to China’s markets.
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The iconic comedy, about a white, Midwestern, working-class family, is a purposeful olive branch from ABC to the real-life white, Midwestern, working-class families who helped put Donald Trump in the White House.
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First Known Use of olive branch
14th century
OLIVE BRANCH Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of olive branch for English Language Learners
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: something that is said or done to make peace or to show that you want peace : a symbol of peace
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