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Recent Examples of oblong
The album has a slew of features but unlike on junctures of his next-to-last solo FILA, which had oblong collaborations with ASAP Rocky and French Montana, the Emperor’s New Clothes features fit the festivities.
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
Ripe zucchini are oblong, round, green, or yellow, depending on the variety.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2025
The team of Spanish researchers spotted the oblong rock below 5 feet (1.5 meters) of sediment during an excavation in July 2022 and reported their findings in a paper published May 24 in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Whereas there were two smaller oblong openings on the midsole at the ball of the foot and midfoot for the Jordan Tatum 3, there’s now just one much larger space at the midfoot that appears to host a stabilizer.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
Ripe zucchini are oblong, round, green, or yellow, depending on the variety.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 July 2025
The team of Spanish researchers spotted the oblong rock below 5 feet (1.5 meters) of sediment during an excavation in July 2022 and reported their findings in a paper published May 24 in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
Whereas there were two smaller oblong openings on the midsole at the ball of the foot and midfoot for the Jordan Tatum 3, there’s now just one much larger space at the midfoot that appears to host a stabilizer.
—Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
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Another shot showed a closeup of Wei’s new engagement ring, which featured an oval diamond on a golden band.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The breathtaking trilogy ring has an oval diamond of approximately 35 carats at the center, with oval stones of roughly one carat on either side, Tobias Kormind, managing director of European jeweler 77 Diamonds, tells Robb Report.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
13 Aug. 2025
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Most rectangular pieces feature a menu item — written in Japanese and English — as well as a price.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Sep. 2025
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All iPhones are expected to receive rectangular camera bumps with rounded corners.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
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In only nine months, the young researchers reportedly built the prototype machine, which utilizes a rotating laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) system to print cylindrical metal parts significantly faster than conventional systems.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Inside, cylindrical spaces soar and swirl, showcasing bold, complex works from across Africa and the diaspora.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
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Eventually, her hand emerged, gripping an ovoid glass jar with a pale-yellow label.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Ovid’s godly characters are whittled down to basic geometric forms like ovoid shapes and cones that together recount the tale in some of the world’s most phonetically complex languages, such as Abkhaz from Abkhazia, Chatino from inland Oaxaca, and Silbo Gomero from La Gomera in the Canary Islands.—
Mariana Fernández,
ARTnews.com,
18 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Every bit of ground was drenched in sunlight and steaming in the heat, except for the living room that harbored the only wild population of Chittenango ovate amber snails in the world.—
Jessica Suarez Oliver Whang,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2022
Adjective
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The researchers used perfectly spherical silica particles just 200 nanometers wide, essentially superfine sand, to achieve the effect.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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Bazaar Meat then became known for colossal steaks and suckling pigs while also showcasing whimsical dishes like spherical olives and beefsteak tomato tartare that are obviously nods to the time Andrés spent cooking at Ferran Adria’s groundbreaking El Bulli.—
Andy Wang,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The globular segments of the abstract piece, Complexing, could be a kind of smudging, a devolving, of the pregnant and engorged curvilinear silhouette of an earlier figurative sculpture, Monument.—
Nina-Sophia Miralles,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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As a wave of radioactive green slime envelops him, his body begins to transform—limbs mutating, rows of bloody fangs emerging—his globular, wormlike form, slithering menacingly across the screen.—
Laura Holliday,
Wired News,
2 May 2025
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Kappahl offers secondhand clothing, across all categories, online in Sweden through circular software partner reCRQL, with further expansion plans on the horizon.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Sep. 2025
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As per the press release, these included small, circular protrusions or bumps, elliptical protrusions with a fingerprint-like pattern, and a third set of large, round marks.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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