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Recent Examples of oblong
It is made from soft suede with a clean, oblong buckle.
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Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025
For Cracker Barrel’s fifth logo change, the brand’s emblem is now a simpler oblong shape that is meant to resemble a barrel.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
The shelled and cleaned nuts were then put into a metate and pounded with an oblong rock.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 July 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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Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025
For Cracker Barrel’s fifth logo change, the brand’s emblem is now a simpler oblong shape that is meant to resemble a barrel.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
The shelled and cleaned nuts were then put into a metate and pounded with an oblong rock.
—Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 July 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
Adjective
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The main use case for an oval Dutch oven is for large cuts of meat like a rack of lamb.—
Emily Johnson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Wait for the oval green fruits to drop on the ground.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Regardless, its existence was a political statement and a sign of wealth, as large rectangular stone towers were generally limited to rival Anglo-Norman lords and rulers.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Many were rectangular in shape, but a few were round as well.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The upstairs — fashioned like a Tokyo-style listening room — will serve cylindrical-style hand rolls and small-plate comfort fare.—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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That’s thanks to 980 QuantumScape’s QSE-5 cells, which use a lithium-metal anode and a ceramic separator in place of the 18-kWh battery pack that’s equipped with 1,152 cylindrical 21700 cells, which the stock moto usually packs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Those lucky/sitting ducks were at the center of a manifold creative pressure, like the core of a planet pulled spherical by gravity.—
Kate Colby
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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The prototypes were spherical wire frames containing sails; in the wind tunnel, they were put through their paces on different surfaces, including rough and smooth terrain, sand, pebbles and boulder fields.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Open star clusters are much less dense than their globular counterparts and a pair of binoculars with a lower magnification allows for a more comprehensive view.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
30 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
Adjective
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The country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency told AP that rescue teams were using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers and circular saws, as well as their bare hands on occasion, to find the 14 students still missing.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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On the third floor, a vaulted ceiling uncovered an original circular window, and another was found in the library.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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