Olympian

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for Olympian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Olympian
Adjective
  • But to envision Mars as some sort of utopian substitute for Earth is truly delusional.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The cottage retains its utopian squalor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s also a bunch of strange cosmic beings to fight off too.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This all represents their model, depending on a single energy scale that goes on to account for all predictions of cosmic evolution.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The research is even more interesting because of how different this region of the Milky Way is from the galactic plane, where supernovas usually rage.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The American Museum of Natural History’s new Hayden Planetarium Space show, Encounters in the Milky Way, Illuminates the cosmic movements that shape our galactic neighborhood and place in the universe.
    Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Wishing these two a blissful union ahead.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Sep. 2025
  • There is also a new yoga pavilion near the river, while another platform offers space for wellness talks and experiences, such as the blissful Sacred Nap Ritual, during which a wellness mentor guides participants through a story while guests are blissfully cradled in silk hammocks.
    Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The film opens just as its predecessor ended, with a handy recap explaining how Ne Zha and his angelic counterpart, Ao Bing, ended up in need of bodily reincarnation.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Luanne, Hank’s angelic and naive niece who filled out the Hill family, was voiced by Brittany Murphy, who died in 2009, and her role was not recast out of respect.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s a certain beatific joyfulness in that song.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Then there’s the whistle cue when Quint is standing on the bow, oddly beatific in the midst of extraordinary peril.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 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 10 Sep. 2025.

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