as in elliptic
having the shape of an egg
the Oval Office in the White House
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Recent Examples of oval
Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
With his all-black ensembles and oval spectacles, 51-year-old Fugal looks like a Beat poet in a 1950s movie.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 30 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
Jefferson opened the house and greeted diplomats, civil and military officers, citizens and Cherokee chiefs in the center of the oval saloon (today’s Blue Room).
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 2 July 2025
With his all-black ensembles and oval spectacles, 51-year-old Fugal looks like a Beat poet in a 1950s movie.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 30 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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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
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Per the outlets, the boy was allergic to milk, eggs, and nuts.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Objects that come from inside our solar system tend to move along a closed elliptical orbit, while interstellar objects follow a hyperbolic orbit, and move fast enough to be able to escape gravity.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
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That occurs because Earth's orbit around the sun is slightly elliptical.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
Noun
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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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Sheen Falls Lodge is only a few miles outside the Ring of Kerry, the 111-mile loop that traces the coastline of the relaveragh Peninsula.—
Peter Terzian,
Travel + Leisure,
12 July 2025
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But with two loops of the Mûr, another debate was over when the winner would attack — on the first loop, with 15km to go, or up the final climb.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
11 July 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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This is not usually not somewhere Destiny drops the ball.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The kids were treated to a royal ball, a pajama party and other special surprises.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
1 July 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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Wenyu turned and handed Lian Doraemon, his eyes two perfect black-and-white orbs peering out at her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Like watching my son ask the little orb of ChatGPT about how a rocket launch works, or what does gravity do?—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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“Oval.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oval. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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