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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Per the outlets, the boy was allergic to milk, eggs, and nuts.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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This creamy staple is a key ingredient in Southern kitchens, starring in everything from potato salad and deviled eggs to pineapple sandwiches.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
1 July 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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The ellipse enclosing these locations is called an error ellipse.—
Toshi Hirabayashi,
The Conversation,
25 June 2025
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Helicopters and World War II-era warplanes will fly overhead and Army parachutists will soar down to the White House's ellipse, where Trump will preside over the parade from a presidential booth.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
15 June 2025
Noun
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This creates a self-reinforcing loop: as activity on the chain increases, so does the pool of capital available to users, which in turn improves trading execution, reduces slippage, and boosts overall yield.—
Azeem Khan,
Forbes.com,
30 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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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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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
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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
Noun
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How Leading Manufacturers Create New Products With AI Below are spheres within the industry where digital transformation based on AI and automation has been yielding substantial benefits to manufacturers.—
Alexandr Khomich,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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The dawn of the automobile age, for instance, spurred fascination with machinery, influencing designs like the cabochon spheres that evoke ball bearings in many Cartier pieces of the time.—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
29 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 6 Jul. 2025.
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