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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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There were participants in our cohort who remained rightfully critical of our utopian aims, our spectrum of privilege, and our position as cultural workers living through global extinction, famine, corruption, and violence in all its forms.—
Catherine Taft,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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He’s talked about his process in near-utopian terms.—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
28 Jan. 2026
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Most of the galaxies in the Universe are small and faint; most of the stars in the Universe emit primarily red or even infrared light; most of the galaxies in the Universe are rich in dust; most of the Universe that’s observable to us are located at significant cosmic distances.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Feb. 2026
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Tracking how clusters assemble across vast stretches of time and space also informs our knowledge of the cosmic web and the cosmological parameters that shape it.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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Cosmic ray detectors hunt rare antideuterons as dark matter annihilation signatures—but galactic cosmic rays smashing into interstellar gas also produce them, creating background noise.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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At that first ceremony in 2010, Gaga walked the carpet in a sculptural, galactic Armani Privé dress with a high-low structured hem over a tulle catsuit.—
Kase Wickman,
Vanity Fair,
27 Jan. 2026
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As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2026
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The disparate components are bound by hefty percussion hits and an angelic vocal sample that sounds like trying to remember a distant memory.—
Rae-Aila Crumble,
Pitchfork,
26 Jan. 2026
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An overwhelming number of South Africans of color understand that white people’s lives were not blissful under apartheid either.—
Eve Fairbanks,
The Dial,
27 Jan. 2026
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The production is blissful, flowing from the same mystical spring as recent records from Madison Cunningham and Hannah Cohen.—
Lily Goldberg,
Pitchfork,
20 Jan. 2026
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That sincere belief in the serenity of golfing is affirmed by the beatific animation.—
Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2025
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His eyes were limpid, faraway, flooded with tears, his gaze beatific.—
Helen Molesworth,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
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Plenty of itineraries have been curated with Italophiles in mind, with the seven-night Livorno to Naples journey taking travelers to dazzling destinations like Napoleon’s exile isle of Elba and the paradisiacal beaches along north Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda via the French island of Corsica.—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Jan. 2026
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The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal visions.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 Jan. 2026
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“Olympian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Olympian. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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