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Meanings of olive branch in English

Russian
оливковая ветвь
Spanish
rama de olivo
Catalan
branca d'olivera
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Symbol of peace or victory.

Related terms
оливковая ветвь
Catalan
oferiment de pau

Something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace.

oferiment de pau
Usage of olive branch in English
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Fear may lead euro governments to offer the UK an olive branch.
Reuters
2
And the machine, by the way, always has the olive branch out.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
3
He dared to hope that it was an olive branch held out.
The Port of Adventure
4
CTI Foods waves olive branch at U.S. objection to its prepackaged Ch.
Reuters
5
Talk reasonable to your perpetrator and hold out an olive branch?
Death Mask
6
The move will be seen as an olive branch to the union leadership.
Independent.ie
7
The dove came back with an olive branch in its beak.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
8
The German commandant turned away furiously after the rejection of his olive branch.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
9
That was the olive branch to her Aunt Elizabeth on the chaperone question.
The Visioning: A Novel
10
Swift's plaintive ballad appeared to offer an olive branch of sorts to West.
Reuters
11
India is holding out an olive branch to jittery global investors.
Reuters
12
Call it an olive branch. When neither detective responded, he continued.
Naked Heat
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Ahmad meanwhile appeared to hold out an olive branch to Cameroon.
The South African
14
If that wasn't extending the olive branch, then I don't know what was.
The last illusion
15
In any event, Steve Hansen has extended an olive branch to Warren Gatland.
The Irish Times
16
I realize she is extending an olive branch, a sliver of her past.
The Storyteller
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