Example sentences for: olive

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  • The influence of Greece was short-lived, although the olive and the grape, Greek legacies, are cultivated in the region.

  • Military olive.

  • The newest entrant in this contest of symbols is Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times , who offers a somewhat sunnier pair in his new book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree . The Lexus, a luxury car made mostly by robots in a state-of-the-art Japanese factory, stands for progress--"all the anonymous, transnational, homogenizing, standardizing market forces and technologies that make up today's globalizing economic system," as he puts it.

  • Based on experiences like these, some hunters have switched from alcohol to olive oil for their tincture solution.

  • Fiber might affect the risk of breast cancer by decreasing estrogen levels; fiber binds estrogen excreted into the gastrointestinal tract and reduces enterohepatic circulation [ 17 18 ] . In addition, higher dietary fiber intake has been associated with higher plasma levels of sex-hormone-binding globulin, which can reduce the bioavailability of estrogens [ 19 ] . The potential mechanism of a protective effect of vegetable fat is more speculative: vegetable fat is a composite of multiple forms of fatty acids, some of which have been proposed to increase risk (such as C 18:2 n-6) whereas other specific fatty acids have been proposed to decrease risk (such as C 18:1 , the primary fatty acid in olive oil) [ 20 ] . More detail on the type and composition of the vegetable oil used is necessary to pursue this relation with greater precision.


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