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olive

[ol-iv] / ˈɒl ɪv /




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“You’re not dealing with the problem as it is,” he says matter of factly, sitting under an olive tree at a cafe in East Hollywood on an unusually scorching fall day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Several other attacks on Palestinians during the annual olive harvest have also been reported in the run-up to the elections.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, olive oil consumption and eating fewer refined carbohydrates were associated with higher levels of SHMOOSE.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Veteran journalist Hazem Bader had been planning to cover the Palestinians' olive harvest, a flashpoint for tensions in the Israeli-occupied territory.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

"I like an olive in a Martini," I said to the barman.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

For appetizers, I also love putting out potato chips, olives, slices of salami and cucumbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Standing on ladders, the Palestinian farmers worked quickly, sending streams of olives onto the plastic sheets laid out under the trees.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Ashtiyeh and another AFP photographer, John Wessels, were near the northern village of Aqraba where they noticed an Israeli soldier detaining a man as local Palestinians picked olives.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

When the 2023 flood came, his crew scrambled to set up about 30 diesel pumps and sent water flowing onto a vineyard and orchards of almonds, pistachios and olives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

If you have any cheese or olives or cut-up avocado or anything, you can add it on top now, but you don’t really need anything else.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones


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