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Recent Examples of olive
The dress featured two tones of green, with the bodice and long sleeves featuring a darker forest green tone offset by black buttons down the front placket and the skirt featuring an olive shade with a bubble hem motif.
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 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
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Julia Teti, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for olive
Adjective
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Wearing a floor-length brown double-breasted coat featuring buttons that stopped at her waist, the attire created a sultry thigh-high slit that allowed Jolie's leg to peek through.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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Remove mushy, brown, or dead roots, cutting back to the rhizome.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2025
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Jett Rink was a really malevolent varmint, and kind of swarthy and dark.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes,
2 Dec. 2024
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“Olive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/olive. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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