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Recent Examples of oblong
Thanks to their oblong shape, squash is the perfect vehicle for fall florals.
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Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
And the tent's oblong 89 x 53-in (226 x 135-cm) sleeping area should leave a nice space at the foot of the bed for a dog who refuses to be left out in the cold.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
The oblong Xeneon Edge is housed in a simple rectangular plastic enclosure with a slab-like appearance.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 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
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Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025
And the tent's oblong 89 x 53-in (226 x 135-cm) sleeping area should leave a nice space at the foot of the bed for a dog who refuses to be left out in the cold.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
The oblong Xeneon Edge is housed in a simple rectangular plastic enclosure with a slab-like appearance.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
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Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely oval outline and a dark dust filament that gives it the appearance of an aquatic creature.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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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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It’s lit by rectangular fluorescents.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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The marina will feature floating, inflatable cabana areas and a rectangular cutout in the center that creates what is essentially another pool in the sea.—
Jeri Clausing,
AFAR Media,
21 Oct. 2025
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Leaves may be flat or wavy or even cylindrical and shaped like tusks, arranged in a configuration like a fan, or maybe a pineapple top or the most emphatic of cockatoo’s crests.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Engineers placed the platform’s cylindrical hull in phase one into the Atlantic.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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In Disc Pearl, ovoid motifs in the soft Sakuragold gold were outlined with diamonds and reflected the softness of South Sea pearls.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
10 Oct. 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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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 science behind the glass sphere design The spherical shape is more than a design choice.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Acording to the researchers, this is the first time supression has been observed in a spherical tokamak.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 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
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The discovery offers a powerful way to give waste plastics a second life as high-performance materials, advancing both a circular economy and next-generation clean technologies.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Ground zero for two family weddings and several SAG-AFTRA events during the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress’s ownership, the light gray and white-trimmed structure is tucked away behind 20-foot privacy hedges and double gates and fronted by a semi-circular driveway.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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