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Recent Examples of olive
Take the hour-long ferry from Corfu to Sarandë, Albania, where clear Ionian waters meet rugged cliffs and hills dotted with olive groves.
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Mina Agnos, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
Dressed in olive shorts and a matching polo, Travis finished off his look with a pair of white sneakers and a baseball cap.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 11 July 2025
To me, some really nicely roasted almonds, just kind of olive oily roasted almonds with just some flaky salt and not much else.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 June 2025
The latter two both contain oat peptides and olive stem cell extract.
—Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
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Mina Agnos, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
Dressed in olive shorts and a matching polo, Travis finished off his look with a pair of white sneakers and a baseball cap.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 11 July 2025
To me, some really nicely roasted almonds, just kind of olive oily roasted almonds with just some flaky salt and not much else.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 June 2025
The latter two both contain oat peptides and olive stem cell extract.
—Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for olive
Adjective
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The plaid of his flannel shirt, green and brown and tan.—
Meg Pillow
July 31,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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This oversized pair of aviator sunglasses has a gold frame and pinky brown lenses similar to Lakshmi’s.—
Izzy Baskette,
People.com,
31 July 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 7 Aug. 2025.
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