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Recent Examples of oblong
The shelled and cleaned nuts were then put into a metate and pounded with an oblong rock.
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Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 July 2025
The album has a slew of features but unlike on junctures of his next-to-last solo FILA, which had oblong collaborations with ASAP Rocky and French Montana, the Emperor’s New Clothes features fit the festivities.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
Ripe zucchini are oblong, round, green, or yellow, depending on the variety.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 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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Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 26 July 2025
The album has a slew of features but unlike on junctures of his next-to-last solo FILA, which had oblong collaborations with ASAP Rocky and French Montana, the Emperor’s New Clothes features fit the festivities.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2025
Ripe zucchini are oblong, round, green, or yellow, depending on the variety.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 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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Wait for the oval green fruits to drop on the ground.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
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Another shot showed a closeup of Wei’s new engagement ring, which featured an oval diamond on a golden band.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The Pros have an entirely new look, with a large rectangular housing around its rear three cameras and flash, along with a second rectangular section below it.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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There’s no steering wheel or pedals, and the rectangular shape has led many in the industry to describe it as a toaster on wheels.—
Salvador Rodriguez,Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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At the core of a NASA's nuclear engine design is a cylindrical core holding the uranium-235 fuel elements, pierced with a number of channels for the hydrogen to flow through.—
David Szondy
September 10,
New Atlas,
10 Sep. 2025
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How the reactors will work Deep Fission’s technology centers on small cylindrical reactors that can be lowered into 30-inch diameter boreholes drilled a mile into the Earth.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
9 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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The canyon-like layout consists of four spherical structures connected by curving platforms, courtyards, and pedestrian bridges; 3 of the 18 floors are below ground.—
Mae Hamilton,
AFAR Media,
9 Sep. 2025
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Covered with tentacles, shaped like rods, perfectly spherical?—
Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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As a wave of radioactive green slime envelops him, his body begins to transform—limbs mutating, rows of bloody fangs emerging—his globular, wormlike form, slithering menacingly across the screen.—
Laura Holliday,
Wired News,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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The most prominent features of the Cygnus cargo freighter are its circular, fan-like solar arrays and an aluminum cylinder called the pressurized cargo module that bears some resemblance to a keg of beer.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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To clean your stainless steel pan after a night of cooking, simply pour off the excess grease or oil, then clean the pan with warm water and dish soap, using a sponge (our favorite is this Skura style sponge), moving in a continuous circular motion across the cooking surface.—
Emily Johnson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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