hold out an olive branch
Example Sentences
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Trump, during his trip, at times appeared to hold out an olive branch to Pyongyang.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2017
He seemed to hold out an olive branch by observing a 1994 deal negotiated by his father to freeze construction of two reactors suspected of use in the North’s covert atomic weapons program.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2011
