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Recent Examples of oblong
Pick Award-Winning Hybrids Available in both round and oblong varieties (sometimes called grape tomatoes), cherry tomato plants fruit in a rainbow of colors.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 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
During the 2022 City Council remap process, Villegas was chair of the Latino Caucus had saw his ward redrawn into an oblong 8-mile noodle after losing a fight with the Black Caucus over how many majority Latino and Black seats the body should see.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
The Pixel series features Google’s Camera Bar, an oblong camera bump that runs horizontally across the back panel.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 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
During the 2022 City Council remap process, Villegas was chair of the Latino Caucus had saw his ward redrawn into an oblong 8-mile noodle after losing a fight with the Black Caucus over how many majority Latino and Black seats the body should see.
—Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
The Pixel series features Google’s Camera Bar, an oblong camera bump that runs horizontally across the back panel.
—Iyaz Akhtar, PC Magazine, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
Adjective
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Add a circular or oval coffee table to complement the rounded lines.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
22 June 2026
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Tobias Kormind, managing director of 77 Diamonds in London, told People the oval center stone was approximately 35 carats.—
Bailey Bujnosek,
InStyle,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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Great for small and large living spaces alike, a rectangular coffee table can make your room feel bigger.—
Rachel Fletcher,
Architectural Digest,
19 June 2026
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Its competition includes both the Brother VC-500W label printer, which uses the same Zero Ink (Zink) technology, and the Canon Selphy QX20 photo printer, which can also print photos in both rectangular and square formats.—
M. David Stone,
PC Magazine,
19 June 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Richard Carleton Hacker,
Robb Report,
19 June 2026
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Many sunrise alarm clocks are round to fill the room with artificial light, while other models may be cylindrical or cube-shaped.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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In the 2015 video installation The Slave Ship (The Law of the Sea), the film unfolds in an ovoid frame.—
Emmanuel Iduma,
ARTnews.com,
4 May 2026
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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.—
Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
29 Apr. 2026
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 oil-free cream formula is anchored by spherical particles that absorb and refract light to blur dark spots, redness, and uneven texture without emphasizing the lines and pores that heavier concealers tend to magnify.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Allure,
13 June 2026
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Peppercorns are the small, spherical fruits that grow in bunches on a climbing vine of these plants, similar to how grapes come to life.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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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.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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Nike engineered the globular Air units to be flexible and low to the ground.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Toward the beginning of the episode, the group sits down to eat at a hole-in-the-wall barbecue spot and the camera swings around the table in a sweeping circular motion, capturing everyone laughing, bonding and sharing a meal.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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The image showed Robinson gazing at the camera, dressed in circular statement earrings and a bandana print blouse buttoned to the top.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
17 June 2026
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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