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Recent Examples of Olympian
Starstruck by Olympian celebrity, Persephone rebels against her mother Demeter and sneaks into a party at the Acropolis.
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The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Brock Faber The cornerstone defenseman is slated to be an Olympian next year and the No. 1 defenseman in Minnesota for the next decade.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 19 June 2025
The former Olympian and reality TV star had traveled to Israel to attend the city's annual Pride Parade, which was canceled because of security concerns following Iran's missile attacks.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
Softball The Pointers, who won the school’s first CIF San Diego Section softball title May 30 in Division II and entered the Southern California Regional Division III tournament as the No. 1 seed, shut out No. 4 Olympian 3-0 in the semifinals.
—Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Brock Faber The cornerstone defenseman is slated to be an Olympian next year and the No. 1 defenseman in Minnesota for the next decade.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 19 June 2025
The former Olympian and reality TV star had traveled to Israel to attend the city's annual Pride Parade, which was canceled because of security concerns following Iran's missile attacks.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 June 2025
Softball The Pointers, who won the school’s first CIF San Diego Section softball title May 30 in Division II and entered the Southern California Regional Division III tournament as the No. 1 seed, shut out No. 4 Olympian 3-0 in the semifinals.
—Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Olympian
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Ramírez planted the flag in the infield grass before Slider grabbed it, engaged with a sea of fans who didn’t want to abandon the utopian setting at the ballpark, and then handed it to David Fry.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, such a transition as implied by the current crisis necessitates and implies a coming organizational shift in society, but that could either result in a hideous fascism or in something genuinely utopian.—
Ed Simon
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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The breakthrough offers the clearest picture yet of how these cosmic giants survive for billions of years without collapsing.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Or customize your own Polar Pizza by choosing your favorite base and toppings to pair with the cosmic flavor.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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A’ja Wilson is a galactic force of silk and swagger, anchoring Vegas as the league’s Most Valuable Player (for the fourth time in six seasons).—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In some young star cluster within the Milky Way galaxy, about 27,000 light-years from the galactic center, a new star system has just emerged within the last 60 million years.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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Adolescents tend to operate in a blissful state of oblivion around the aesthetic curation of a home, but Adam Sternberg wasn’t like most children.—
Jennifer Fernandez,
Architectural Digest,
24 Sep. 2025
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Colorful Mérida has no beaches of its own, but with the blissful town of Celestún just an hour and a half away, most travelers won't mind.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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Jordan Davis – angelic voice and all – blocked the potential game-winning 44-yarder by Joshua Karty and returned it 61 yards for a legendary bad beat.—
Chris Bumbaca,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
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And indeed, these are her most cinematic paintings yet, like stills from a 1980s horror film where something goes terribly wrong at the prom—though the silk gloves, clingy tights, and ruffled blouses and dresses her subjects wear could easily belong to some angelic Victorian scene.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
18 Sep. 2025
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When Simone decides to grasp Kiki’s life for herself by starting an affair with Peter, though, Michaela’s beatific facade slips.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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A bit of a drive further on Santa Monica offers the beatific resting place of many stars, Hollywood Forever Cemetery.—
Samantha Dunn,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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There aren’t any facilities and guests must hike to reach the north-facing beach with almost blindingly white sand, but the effort is more than justified by a paradisiacal setting with mangroves, the clearest water and palms—private picnics are available, too.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Aug. 2025
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And if these virtual recreations of stellar self-destruction are windows into the very distant past, then that might also mean our own waterlogged, paradisiacal world is just one in a considerably long line of oceanic planets.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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“Olympian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Olympian. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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