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Recent Examples of oblong
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
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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
Adjective
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But his run to fourth in qualifying at Phoenix, the first oval race of the season, turned heads.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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The oval artificial egg looks a bit like a tea infuser, with an open lid to observe embryonic development.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
19 May 2026
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In the Age of Sail, sailors also scoured the wooden decks with coarse sea sand and holystones – large, rectangular blocks of sandstone – to remove grim, spilled tar and rope fibers.—
Peter Suciu,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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The rectangular pitch, its outline marked in white, is a universal terrain.—
Nicolas Villamil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
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In this iteration, the cylindrical bulk of Madison Square Garden acquires a certain classical nobility, wrapped in terra-cotta tiles that glitter through a corset of stone ribs.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
8 June 2026
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These are rectangular and larger than cylindrical cells, and shaped like a nine-volt battery (9V).—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 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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Elsewhere on the ruby red carpet, Greta Lee paid homage to beloved cowgirl, Jessie, brought to life by Joan Cusack in all five films, wearing a red and white spherical, one-shoulder gown plucked straight from the Christian Dior spring 2026 couture runway.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
10 June 2026
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Testing future reactors Researchers believe spherical tokamaks could offer advantages over conventional designs.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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The Sombrero galaxy holds nearly 2,000 globular star clusters, nearly 10 times more than the number in our own Milky Way.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Also known as a globular stink bug, these invasive bugs are similar to stink bugs that come indoors looking for warmth for the winter.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
2 Feb. 2026
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For centuries, Native American tribes lived in the area, growing crops and building earthlodges, a circular home of earth and wood that was the center of family life, housing multiple generations, according to the National Park Service.—
USA TODAY Network,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Each leather chair has a circular blue sticker of the 2026 World Cup.—
Pete Grathoff
June 8,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2026
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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