as in elliptic
having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
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
Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 15 Apr. 2025
First, the basics: Your face is either oblong, oval, round, heart-shaped, or square.
—Julie Ricevuto, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
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
Noun
The broader brimmed fedora was created with taller women with broader faces in mind for a balanced look, but people with an oval face can also wear it.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 15 Apr. 2025
First, the basics: Your face is either oblong, oval, round, heart-shaped, or square.
—Julie Ricevuto, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oval
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White House Easter egg roll: How to watch the event that will use 30,000 real eggs The country's largest tech companies make up some of the corporate sponsors, according to a list released by the White House, including Amazon, Meta and YouTube.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Well, the Easter Bunny has come and gone, leaving us to clean up all these eggs.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell has proposed the boundary should be lower, at around 80 kilometers up, arguing that satellites can survive certain elliptical orbits that dip to this height.—
Michael Bartiromo,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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However, when Cruz pressed Isaacman about the Lunar Gateway, a space station NASA is developing to fly in an elliptical orbit around the Moon, Isaacman would not be drawn in.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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According to preliminary data, Blue Ghost settled in a location just outside of its 330-foot (100-meter) target landing ellipse, probably due to the last-minute divert maneuvers ordered by the vehicle's hazard avoidance system.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
18 Mar. 2025
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Housed in an 18k yellow gold double ellipse case, the Extra Plat is a reimagining of a 1990 design.—
Cassell Ferere,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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There’s trekking pole attachment loops, a stretchy outer pocket with room enough for a layer or rain jacket, and the combination of a roll-top closure, compression straps and full length side zip makes accessing everything super easy.—
Scott Gilbertson,
Wired News,
1 May 2025
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Build Feedback Loops That Invite Lived Experience Into Process Effective third space organizations build feedback loops that move in every direction—top down, bottom up, and laterally—with transparency, accountability, and storytelling at their core.—
Mary Hemphill, PhD,
Forbes.com,
1 May 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
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Hopefully, the Knicks figured out a way to get Towns the ball.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2025
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Oklahoma City immediately responded with a timeout before the ball hit the floor.—
William Guillory,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Expanding the goods trade war into the financial sphere would be a significant escalation by the U.S., and remains highly unlikely.—
Brendan Ahern,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Further east, when Arcadia joined the sphere of concern as the fire erratically tore through the San Gabriel foothills, the city’s fire chief successfully advocated for unified commanders to issue more widespread evacuations than initially proposed.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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In the film, Jason Momoa’s Garrett Garrison has to battle the chicken jockey on the way to finding the orb that can take him back to the real world.—
Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
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Abyssal Edge – This sword is Strand, and that works with the Unraveling Orbs artifact mod that gives Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds on orb pickup which works with Flash Counter damage.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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