as in elliptic
having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
In the dining room, the family’s original China collection — complete and fully intact — is set on a long, oval table.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 26 Jan. 2023
John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
Together, the stones had once formed an oval measuring roughly 82 feet by 75 feet.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Today inside Paris’s Palais Brongniart, guests including Kerry Washington, Milly Alcock, and Rita Ora filed into a futuristic oval room for Fendi’s spring 2023 couture show.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
In the dining room, the family’s original China collection — complete and fully intact — is set on a long, oval table.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 26 Jan. 2023
Noun
The blue oval is offering A plan pricing on most 2024 and 2025 vehicles, including the all-electric F-150 Lightning and the Mustang Mach-E, as well as its various hybrids.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
Together, the stones had once formed an oval measuring roughly 82 feet by 75 feet.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oval
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White House Easter egg roll: How to watch the event that will use 30,000 real eggs The country's largest tech companies make up some of the corporate sponsors, according to a list released by the White House, including Amazon, Meta and YouTube.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Well, the Easter Bunny has come and gone, leaving us to clean up all these eggs.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Impact level: Medium—more than the bike or elliptical, but less than running.—
Cindy Kuzma,
SELF,
24 Mar. 2025
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The maritime setting would have worked equally well without it, evoking a more elliptical sense of dread.—
Houman Barekat,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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According to preliminary data, Blue Ghost settled in a location just outside of its 330-foot (100-meter) target landing ellipse, probably due to the last-minute divert maneuvers ordered by the vehicle's hazard avoidance system.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
18 Mar. 2025
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Housed in an 18k yellow gold double ellipse case, the Extra Plat is a reimagining of a 1990 design.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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But for me, returning to Top Chef wasn’t about closing a loop or arriving at a conclusion.—
Sabrina Weiss,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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In our test, which involves playing a YouTube video on a loop with the screen at full brightness, the phone lasted 16 hours and 6 minutes on a single charge.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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The only thing that could concentrate our eyes and minds, in this reverse panopticon of seventy thousand gazes, was the football itself, that precious prolate spheroid of dimpled cowhide, which had yet to be teed up or booted into play.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Be massive to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e., be a spheroid under the force of its own gravity) 3.—
John Loeffler,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Often around the ball, St-Juste was credited with 17 pass deflections in 2023.—
Ben Standig,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Cunha’s ball-carrying is an important aspect to consider in an Amorim system.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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What to look for in a quality ice cube tray Shape Ice cube trays come in a variety of shapes, such as spheres, rectangles and half-moons.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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So, recommendation systems is this attempt of trying to break into like a larger sphere of different kinds of algorithms, things related to manipulating data and things which are present everywhere in tech and in industry, not just a maybe more niche domain.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But our clever crafter has Dennis hide the orb of dominance in the human world, thereby delaying Malgosha’s plans for multidimensional conquest.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
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The first room features a giant orb covered in rushing water and filled with moon jellyfish.—
Natallie Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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