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Recent Examples of oblong
Grape tomatoes are more oblong, with thicker skins and less water than cherry tomatoes, which helps them last longer.
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Brette Warshaw,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 June 2026
The map also showed oblong shapes above the tank site.
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Sean Greene,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
The oblong shape of this piece gives it a gentler look—especially for a workspace with a tiny footprint.
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Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
18 May 2026
To identify the plant, Kaufmann recommends looking for a notch or lobe that is sometimes found on one side of the oblong leaflets with smooth margins.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
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Brette Warshaw,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 June 2026
The map also showed oblong shapes above the tank site.
—
Sean Greene,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
The oblong shape of this piece gives it a gentler look—especially for a workspace with a tiny footprint.
—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
18 May 2026
To identify the plant, Kaufmann recommends looking for a notch or lobe that is sometimes found on one side of the oblong leaflets with smooth margins.
—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
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By April 2019, the final stone went on show in Gabarone, graded as a type 11b Fancy Deep Blue, oval brilliant-cut VVS2 clarity, according to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
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The Meta Adventurer comes in a rectangular shape, the Meta Fury takes a more Ray-Ban-like square shape, while a special-edition Meta Glasses by Kylie comes in a slim, oval frame designed in collaboration with Kylie Jenner.
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Indeed, the Isaac 1 gets an unassuming Baymax-like pair of eyes set into a rounded rectangular head.
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Its long rectangular layout makes the crowd feel intimate yet keeps the stage looking epic.
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The cucumber is a creeping vine plant that grows into a cylindrical shape.
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Only one size is produced, a 6 x 52 toro, 10 of which are individually tubed inside a cylindrical humidor that looks like it was designed by Iron Man.
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In the 2015 video installation The Slave Ship (The Law of the Sea), the film unfolds in an ovoid frame.
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The table revealed that an ovoid body—blunt nose, tapering tail—came closer to aerodynamic perfection than anything else a designer could draw.
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The facility will also include 50 production lines dedicated to manufacturing spherical micro- and nanodiamond powders used in advanced materials applications.
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Making Your Seashell Ice Spheres Grab a spherical ice mold, fill it with water, and set your seashell inside.
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The pieces are abstract but appear to show featureless human figures sitting atop globular, cloud-like shapes that float in the air.
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Nike engineered the globular Air units to be flexible and low to the ground.
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Wipe in circular motions with a lint-free microfiber cloth to loosen grime, then finish with long, horizontal swipes.
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The circular logic of it would be darkly comic if tens of thousands of livelihoods weren't caught in the middle.
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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