Olympian

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Recent Examples of Olympian Last year, Peacock accounted for approximately 1.5% of all video consumption in the U.S., with that share jumping to 2.1% in the Olympian month of August. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 30 Jan. 2025 That’s because the Greeks distinguished between Olympian gods, who lived on Mt. Olympus, and chthonic gods, who lived in the underworld. Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025 Biles' husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens, immediately pointed to his Olympian wife when the question came up on the red carpet Comments In a double athlete household, Jonathan Owens declares Simone Biles the winner! Danielle Jennings, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025 Inspired by his Olympian wife, the former Green Bay Packer attempted a Lambeau Field leap, but didn’t quite make it. Rachel Flynn, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Olympian
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Adjective
  • Reality check: Some outside commentators see techno as telling a dystopian story in Detroit, amid population decline and auto industry layoffs, contrasted with a free, post-Cold War utopian narrative in Europe, according to MSU English professor Julian Chambliss.
    Annalise Frank, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Already detectable here is the same mix of utopian politics and pragmatic can-do that would shape the emerging ethos of 2 Tone.
    Ian Penman, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Blue Ghost is carrying 10 NASA experiments on board, including a drill to measure lunar heat flow, an instrument to collect rock samples and an X-ray imager to study how Earth's magnetic field is impacted by cosmic forces such as solar wind.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 2 Mar. 2025
  • As for cosmic weather, March 2 will be quite dreamy, optimistic and social.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And don’t travel too far north; the galactic center is only visible below 55 degrees latitude—roughly Edmonton, Canada.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Looking toward the galactic center thus amounts to looking at a vast band of stars—which is what the Milky Way looks like to the naked eye in a very dark sky.
    Jeffrey Kluger/Greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • With lavender, clary sage, and eucalyptus essential oils, the mist bottles the blissful feeling of lounging in a steam room or drifting off to sleep while an expert minimizes your pores.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In this treatment, guests are enveloped in the calming aromas of local lavender, followed by gold ear seed therapy and a blissful grounding ritual, honoring the feet with a botanical exfoliation and foot reflexology massage.
    Yola Robert, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • On the three-track body of work, audiophiles hear angelic tunes, staticky sounds, tinkering and swirling synths, playful basslines, powerful and sultry singing, computer-sounding beats, shimmering soundscapes, acid basslines, liquid drum’n’bass and groove-inducing production.
    Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Portrayals of enslaved people typically show either angelic tropes or extreme suffering.
    Erin Crosby Eckstine, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The various characters who arrived out of the city’s nooks and crannies late in the performance’s run were the flip side of the beatific images of ordinary people in tears.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 14 Mar. 2010
  • Some — such as Thomas Hauser — have felt that Ali’s circle tried too hard to soften the boxer’s once-firebrand image and transform him into a beatific, near-saintly epitome.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • His naïve younger brother, Gustavo (Eros de la Puente), finds a way to join him, and for a while the two enjoy a paradisiacal, summer-camp-like freedom.
    Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The exhibition, officially titled Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years, is a hauntingly paradisiacal and unapologetically personal retrospective.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024

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“Olympian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Olympian. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.

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