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Recent Examples of oblong
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.
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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
Seidle sketches out miniature worlds on his Casio with the oblong abstractions of a kindergartener doodling on a piece of paper, his primitive songs existing in a kind of nascent pre-genre state.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff?
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
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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
Seidle sketches out miniature worlds on his Casio with the oblong abstractions of a kindergartener doodling on a piece of paper, his primitive songs existing in a kind of nascent pre-genre state.
—Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026
Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff?
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
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The ring features a 12-carat, oval Ceylon sapphire at its center surrounded by a halo of 14 diamonds set in 18k white gold—by anyone’s eye, a beautiful piece.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
9 Mar. 2026
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Oval Glass Doors That front door with an oval glass inset?—
Angelika Pokovba,
Martha Stewart,
22 Feb. 2026
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That research led him to conclude that the long rectangular space east of the Palace’s formal gardens originally functioned as a bowling green.—
Stephanie Gallman Jordan,
Southern Living,
18 May 2026
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Tiny oval lenses and slim rectangular frames have slowly given way to oversized bug-eye silhouettes, wraparound shield sunglasses, and statement-making styles that feel more glamorous than understated.—
Lauren Fisher,
Footwear News,
16 May 2026
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To support this new system, engineers mounted a cylindrical hydrogen tank beneath the tail boom and installed specialized cooling nacelles on both sides of the helicopter’s exterior.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 May 2026
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Drive stakes into the ground on opposite sides of the cage to support the cylindrical structure.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 May 2026
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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
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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
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The engine mounts were closely inspected following the November crash, and going forward the spherical bearings will be replaced regularly, after every 4,000 cycles of takeoffs and landings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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Investigators said a spherical bearing that had cracked on Flight 2976 had also failed four previous times on other planes.—
Joel Rose,
NPR,
19 May 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
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The plant is easily identified by its rampant growth in the spring and its spiny globular fruit.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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The lobby’s circular floor plan gives the illusion of a lily pad floating atop a koi pond.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 May 2026
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The restricted area is a circular zone of about 33 miles around the city, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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