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having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
The move from downtown turned the race, which previously featured a stretch over the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, into an oval.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2023
They're designed with oval and round faces in mind, and for those with a higher nose bridge.
—Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Jan. 2023
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Adjective
But many customers choose to experience the diner inside, which involves entering through a circular entryway that leads to curved counters, oval booths and rounded chairs — all in shades of chrome, white and black.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
The move from downtown turned the race, which previously featured a stretch over the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, into an oval.
—Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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
They're designed with oval and round faces in mind, and for those with a higher nose bridge.
—Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oval
Noun
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Add eggs one at a time, mixing on low.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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The best vitamins for nails come from eating foods like leafy greens, eggs, nuts, seeds, sweet potato, cold water fish, and more that are rich in a few key vitamins.—
Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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As per the press release, these included small, circular protrusions or bumps, elliptical protrusions with a fingerprint-like pattern, and a third set of large, round marks.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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The high-altitude elliptical orbit required a boost on a Falcon Heavy rocket.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
22 Aug. 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
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Understand how long deployments take, what training is required, and whether the data strategy creates a feedback loop for continual improvement.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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Without explicit feedback loops—behavioral signals, retraining pipelines and active learning mechanisms—most models get stale over time.—
Keshav Agrawal,
Forbes.com,
8 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
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Matters only got more bleak in the sixth, when Rushing fouled a ball off his right shin, smoking a ball right above where his guard ended and immediately going down in pain.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Richland trimmed the deficit with a focus on the ground game, as Kates and Gibson ran the ball right through the Panthers’ defense while playing up-tempo.—
Jordan Neal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The house—painted bright, layered with antique glassware and family heirlooms—positions the domestic sphere as a seat of authority.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The collapse continues until a luminous sphere surrounds a dense core that is hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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This composition positions the blood moon atop Tokyo's famous Skytree tower in Japan, giving the impression that the lunar disk is a red orb fixed to the top of a metal staff.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Enjoy the view from the Sunsphere The Sunsphere, a shining, faceted golden orb that stands in World’s Fair Park, has an observation deck for great city views.—
Caroline Rogers,
Southern Living,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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