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Recent Examples of oliveSwim in a secluded bay, check out ruins, and wander olive groves.—AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025 It’s made with a blend of olive fruit oil, vitamin E, and rosemary leaf oil that leaves my complexion feeling soft and moisturized.—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2025 The olive press suggests that the once-affluent estate was later repurposed for oil production, likely tied to the Samaritan Revolts under Byzantine rule.—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025 The spatulas are made out of olive wood.—Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for olive
Don’t let its crusty, golden-brown surface fool you—what lies beneath is a potentially delicious dish whose success depends on the decisions made and ingredients used along the way.
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Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025
Green expertly applies fake eyelashes, thick foundation and a dessert brown eye look, while Messina goes to work piling tight curls atop my head.
Elements of her can be found on Lioness in Zoe Saldaña’s Joe McNamara, a CIA operative trying to save the world from the swarthy — terrorists in Season One, Mexican cartels in Season Two — while raising two girls.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
Jett Rink was a really malevolent varmint, and kind of swarthy and dark.
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