Olympian

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Recent Examples of Olympian 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 In the show, Petty will have candid conversations with Canadian Senator, former rower and three-time Olympian gold-medalist Marnie McBean, and actor, producer and Reelworld Screen Institute founder and Executive Director Tonya Williams. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 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 See All Example Sentences for Olympian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Olympian
Adjective
  • Presenting a utopian vision, technology providers promise a world where organisations can constantly add new software to their infrastructure to function more efficiently and effectively; friction should fall while profits rise.
    David Prosser, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, these platforms too often create filter bubbles or echo chambers.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Indeed, the footage of the cluster of cells meeting the uterus looks like a mini cosmic explosion.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The research, set to be published in The Planetary Science Journal, aims to put these cosmic risks into a clearer perspective and highlight the importance of planetary defense initiatives.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • These galactic cores are called active galactic nuclei, or AGNs; and in fact, the monster black holes powering these phenomena can also funnel matter outward in the form of highly energetic jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light.
    Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And among old galactic halo stars, the Lithium-7 underabundance is a factor of two to three below big bang nucleosynthesis predictions.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Cotswolds, England Best for: travelers emphasizing the solo-ness of solo travel Sometimes, the perfect solo trip means playing up the blissful solitude.
    Road Trips, AFAR Media, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But there’s something extra special about this sudden, blissful hush.
    Elizabeth Broadbent, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Hathaway had an angelic voice and prodigious amounts of songwriting talent but also suffered from mental illness.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2025
  • Halle Bailey, the talented actress and angelic voice behind our favorite Disney Princess, has for better or worse lived a majority of her life as a public figure.
    Essence, Essence, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • In this combination of dark fantasy and frat-boy comedy, Sandler plays the titular son of Satan (Harvey Keitel) and a beatific angel (Reese Witherspoon).
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 July 2025
  • Her hair is now short and white, her vibe eternally beatific.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 21 Aug. 2025.

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