as in elliptic
having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025
To complete the bedroom setup, spring for the Everson oval glass nightstands.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2025
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
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Adjective
Plants maintain a dense oval crown with little pruning.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025
To complete the bedroom setup, spring for the Everson oval glass nightstands.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oval
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Use the crevice tool to vacuum in cracks and corners, especially where the shelf meets the wall, under shelving, and where the wall meets the ceiling, which are favorite places for moths to lay eggs.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
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Their most popular savory waffle dish comes with chicken topped with bourbon maple syrup, pepper bacon, two eggs and a side of hash.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The high-altitude elliptical orbit required a boost on a Falcon Heavy rocket.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
22 Aug. 2025
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The idea of narrative art being a driver of community and common belief systems was one to which Lucas, in sometimes elliptical ways, kept repeating and returning.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
27 July 2025
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The Oakley Ellipse 50th Anniversary pair, designed to reflect the ellipse of the Oakley logo, retains the brand's futurist aesthetic with the lens shape and curve, known at Oakley as the PhysioMorphic Geometry.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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That orbit in general is an ellipse, an oval shape.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
25 July 2025
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This includes regular employee training, feedback loops and agile decision-making processes.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Syms suggested creating structured listening mechanisms in the form of surveys, feedback loops or open forums.—
Vicki Salemi,
Boston Herald,
28 Aug. 2025
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The Quantum Solution Despite the planet’s relatively regular spheroid shape, the Earth’s gravitational pull is not uniform.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 July 2025
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But when either snacking on regular bone-in rodents or a calcium-rich diet, snake cell crypts featured plenty of calcium, phosphorus, and iron spheroids.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 July 2025
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Carry progression assesses the percentage of a player’s ball carries that move their team significantly closer to an opposition’s goal — in football speak, the ability to move their team up the pitch.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Before the rookie made his first start in right field at Wrigley, first-base coach Jose Javier and third-base coach Quintin Berry, who also works with Cubs outfielders, advised Caissie that balls hit that way might start foul and come back toward the field.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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Advertisement Putin sees Russian identity as defined by a linguistic and cultural sphere that extends beyond the formal borders of the Russian Federation, and his denial of Ukrainian nationhood stems from this worldview.—
Galip Dalay,
Time,
19 Aug. 2025
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Hannity, arguably one of Trump's staunchest supporters in the conservative media sphere, asked the president during a prime-time broadcast Friday following the Trump-Putin summit.—
Sonam Sheth,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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On the lagoon, red orbs, sheathed in black nets, bob on the surface.—
Brienne Walsh,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Mega Power orbs, which can be collected to Mega Evolve your Pokémon, may also appear around the stage, as well as items to boost your Pokémon's stats temporarily.—
Ryan Woodrow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.
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