the Oval Office

noun

: the office of the U.S. President in the White House

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But when a vice president inherits the Oval Office from a president of the same party, there is typically a lot of continuity to go along with the obvious change. —

Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Trump is bidding to become only the second person in history to win back the Oval Office after Grover Cleveland served nonconsecutive terms from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897. —

Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2024 Donald Trump has boasted about his ties with strongman leaders other United States presidents would have kept at arm's length, but this does not mean his potential retaking of the Oval Office next week will be toasted in Moscow, Pyongyang, Tehran or Beijing. —

David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024 Donald Trump is going to walk in the Oval Office with an enemies list. —

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