olive

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Recent Examples of olive In Andalusia Nature also takes center stage at the 11-room La Fuente de la Higuera, a centuries-old millhouse among olive groves and with views of Serranía de Ronda. Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025 Operating seasonally from March through November, the resort combines Italian luxury accommodations with expansive gardens, olive groves, and refined dining. Taryn White, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025 World-class quiet roads twist past unfathomably picturesque countryside blanketed in rolling vineyards and olive groves. Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 13 May 2025 For this is a family business, and the hotel stands in the olive groves that passed down through generations for 500 years. Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for olive
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Adjective
  • Police described Travis Decker as a white man with black hair and brown eyes, standing 5'8'' and weighing 190 pounds.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • Other above-average colors for value retention include beige, red, silver, brown, gray, and blue, says the company.
    Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 20 Jun. 2025.

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