Olympian

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Recent Examples of Olympian The honor has been given since 1991 and includes winners such as Basketball Hall of Famer Rebecca Lobo (1995), Olympic gold medal swimmer Kimberly Black (2001) and three-time Olympian triple jumper Keturah Orji (2018). Megan Forrester, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2025 Long with Large Barrel Curls America's Olympian sweetheart Simone Biles's bridal beauty look included mermaid waves, made with a large barrel curling iron. Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024 By all accounts, Omron’s improvements to the robot have proved very successful for a robot intended to act as a tutor, not an Olympian challenger. Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2024 Another guest affected by cancer was Olympian Sir Chris Hoy, who Princess Kate was seen having a one-on-one chat with. Janine Henni, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for Olympian
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Olympian
Adjective
  • Jason Momoa will star alongside Alcock as Lobo, an alien mercenary and bounty hunter from the utopian planet of Czarnia in the DC comics.
    Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 21 May 2025
  • What begins as an architectural experiment becomes an eccentric and emotional journey into isolation, celebrity, and the limits of utopian idealism.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The team cites the cosmic horror vibes of movies like Prometheus and the encroaching threat of intimidating enemies such as the Zerg from StarCraft as key inspirations for the game world.
    David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Since the light from the cosmic joust took over 11 billion years to reach the instruments, the battle took place when the Universe was about 18 percent of its current age.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • Then there are the galactic quantities of hubris that underpin the penultimate sentence.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • The nebula featured in Meyer's photo is much closer to Earth than the galactic duo, and is illuminated not by starlight from within, but solely by the ambient light of the Milky Way.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Expect to see a lot of blissful guests partaking in the sweet life here this summer, doing nothing and enjoying everything.
    Andy Wang, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • No one should stand in the way of such a blissful golden years relationship.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The title cut is a slow and low cruising anthem with angelic backing vocals.
    Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025
  • And then all of a sudden [raises his arms, sings angelic note].
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • Kyle: Going from a sudden shot of beatific Pedro Pascal at the end of the last episode to a semi-related flashback with a young Joel Miller and his brother was certainly a choice.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
  • And looked in my direction with beatific warmth.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Pope Francis repeatedly pressed forward his sacred quest to annihilate atomic weapons, and to restore the paradisiacal era imagined in Genesis, before humans invented arms.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Her argument is often contradictory and impulsive, working backward from a paradisiacal climax, leapfrogging over almost every practical concern—and plenty of ethical ones too.
    Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Olympian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Olympian. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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