as in elliptic
having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
The oval brooches found with the body were decorated with silver thread.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
In the dining room, the family’s original China collection — complete and fully intact — is set on a long, oval table.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 26 Jan. 2023
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Adjective
Before The Athletic can ask this incredible man for advice, there is a smattering of noise around the amphitheatre-esque oval ring.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025
The oval brooches found with the body were decorated with silver thread.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2025
Noun
Today inside Paris’s Palais Brongniart, guests including Kerry Washington, Milly Alcock, and Rita Ora filed into a futuristic oval room for Fendi’s spring 2023 couture show.
—Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
In the dining room, the family’s original China collection — complete and fully intact — is set on a long, oval table.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 26 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oval
Noun
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The males will then be released into the wild to mate with females, preventing them from laying eggs that turn into flesh-eating larvae, the Associated Press reported.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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The main rules are a gorgeous full-color book full of evocative art full of plenty of Easter eggs for fans of the show.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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At a certain threshold, when the gravitational influence of both were roughly equal, the moon might have temporarily adopted an elliptical orbit and gotten tidally heated by Earth’s gravitational kneading.—
Robin Andrews,
Wired News,
15 June 2025
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The moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical, with a low point, or perigee, of about 224,000 miles, and a high point, or apogee, of 251,650 miles.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
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There are also plans for a parachute jump by the Army's Golden Knights at the White House ellipse.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
12 June 2025
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Jupiter has a tilt of only three degrees, but its orbit is more elliptical than Earth’s, making its analemma a simpler ellipse in its sky.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
5 June 2025
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But rising import costs from tariffs have thrown her for a loop.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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Others paid tribute to classic Americana, with patriotic flags waving through Levi’s or Wrangler denim belt loops.—
Amber Elliott,
Vogue,
30 June 2025
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The only thing that could concentrate our eyes and minds, in this reverse panopticon of seventy thousand gazes, was the football itself, that precious prolate spheroid of dimpled cowhide, which had yet to be teed up or booted into play.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Be massive to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e., be a spheroid under the force of its own gravity) 3.—
John Loeffler,
Space.com,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Thunder shot a paltry 8-of-30 on 3-pointers and were smoked in 1-on-1 ball.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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Denver went 5-2 last fall whenever No. 19 touched the ball five times or more in a game.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
22 June 2025
Noun
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For Powell, who has worked in the American sports branding and marketing sphere for more than three decades, PSG still have a long way to go.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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The transition to becoming a profitable husband requires intentional action in both personal and professional spheres.—
Willow Kai,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Noun
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That’s a challenge for a company that takes a lot of licks in the press for its futuristic introduction of blockchain into the real world in the form of the metallic orbs.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
20 June 2025
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World executives counter that the orb captures photos of a person’s face and eyes, but doesn’t store any of that data.—
Queenie Wong,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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