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Recent Examples of olive
It’s made with a blend of olive fruit oil, vitamin E, and rosemary leaf oil that leaves my complexion feeling soft and moisturized.
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Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2025
Dressed in an olive trench coat, black sweater, and a muted yellow neckerchief, the actor practically looked ready to hike around Balmoral with the late Queen Elizabeth II.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 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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Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2025
Dressed in an olive trench coat, black sweater, and a muted yellow neckerchief, the actor practically looked ready to hike around Balmoral with the late Queen Elizabeth II.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 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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If the black isn’t to your taste, the slippers are also available in gray and brown.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
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If your fiddle leaf fig is looking pale or droopy, or its leaves have begun to curl, develop brown spots, or drop, it is likely dehydrated and needs water.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
26 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 29 Oct. 2025.
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