as in elliptic
having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Along with hosting the world-famous Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, the series boasts a mix of oval, temporary street circuit and permanent road course races across North America.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
The series' oval finale at WWT Raceway will see an opposite switch – from 6 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., stealing away the series' only evening race a year ago.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2023
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Adjective
In the snaps, Clare carried his fiancée as Smith, 31, beamed with joy while showing off her oval diamond ring.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Along with hosting the world-famous Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge, the series boasts a mix of oval, temporary street circuit and permanent road course races across North America.
—Bruce Martin, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
This simple opener works well on circular cans but may not be effective on dented, square, or oval cans.
—Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
The series' oval finale at WWT Raceway will see an opposite switch – from 6 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., stealing away the series' only evening race a year ago.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oval
Noun
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As the researchers discovered, Iberian harvester queens’ eggs develop differently depending on whether the queen needs mates to produce future Iberian harvester ant queens, or a hybrid workforce that makes up 99% of the colony.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Yes, the high-profile egg inflation has moderated.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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So, instead of spending hours on treadmills and elliptical machines, women are lifting weights.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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This total lunar eclipse will occur seven days before the moon reaches apogee — its farthest point from Earth on its slightly elliptical orbit — making it of average apparent size.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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That orbit in general is an ellipse, an oval shape.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
25 July 2025
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The ellipse enclosing these locations is called an error ellipse.—
Toshi Hirabayashi,
Space.com,
23 July 2025
Noun
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My husband has been muttering in a loop about tuition, books, food, and transportation to and from home to campus.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
15 Sep. 2025
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The western United States is running drier than average during a 30-year drought, which can create a feedback loop of higher temperatures and lower precipitation.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Quantum Solution Despite the planet’s relatively regular spheroid shape, the Earth’s gravitational pull is not uniform.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 July 2025
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But when either snacking on regular bone-in rodents or a calcium-rich diet, snake cell crypts featured plenty of calcium, phosphorus, and iron spheroids.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Five of them will be white balls with numbers from 1 to 70.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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And when the second half started, Gay couldn’t turn a solid Commanders drive into three more points, banging the ball off the right goal post.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Perfume houses might use microencapsulation, putting fragrance oils inside teeny spheres that break down slowly to release the notes over time.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The planet sitting below was dramatically oversimplified — just a smooth sphere with no geography or oceans.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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According to Burlison, the video shows a high-speed object—presumably the missile—hitting the orb, which then deforms, tumbles, and sheds smaller fragments, one barely visible.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The orb continued on its trajectory after the strike.—
Ellen Mitchell,
The Hill,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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