Olympian

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Recent Examples of Olympian 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 There are progressive step-by-step plans for each, and expert coaches involved include Olympian and acclaimed bestselling running author Jeff Galloway. Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for Olympian 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Olympian
Adjective
  • That’s a socialist utopian fantasy as shown by Canada, where wait times to get procedures averaged 30 weeks in 2024.
    John Seiler, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Normally, Davos is a hotbed of planners and self-congratulatory humanitarians who dream up utopian schemes that then can be imposed from the top down by governments.
    John Fund, National Review, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Stern thinks the dwarf planet distinction is nonsensical—an arbitrary parsing of cosmic definitions.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Feb. 2025
  • But there is an earlier milestone that takes the band’s journey into the cosmic and consequential: On July 21, 1969, Led Zeppelin played The Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park, the same date that Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Out of this world laughs and galactic giggles ahead in this list of the best sci-fi comedies of all time.
    Grace Dean, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Today, the planet hardly has a magnetic field; most of its atmosphere has leaked into space, and its surface is pummelled by solar and galactic radiation.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The end of the film depicts Smith's character's blissful wedding to Mendes', meaning the choices for a Hitch 2 jumping-off point are limitless.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The weight of all this is only so heavy, though, because of how thoroughly The Agency built the bond between Samia and Martian, and how plainly it’s presented love as an act of blissful self-destruction.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • For both, the conflict is structured around the opposition between angelic character and sorceress/witch archetype.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Jan. 2025
  • In Philly, the multitudes don’t sing in angelic harmony.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 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 21 Feb. 2025.

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