the Oval Office

noun

: the office of the U.S. President in the White House

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Still, November is a long way away, and observers outside the Oval Office, including Jerome Powell and his colleagues at the Fed, have been raising their estimates of how the economy might perform in the New Year. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 France’s President Emmanuel Macron said in the Oval Office in February that touching the Russian funds would be a breach of international law. Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025 Donald Trump‘s installation of a Walk of Fame just outside the Oval Office was a curious enough addition to his gilding of the White House. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2025 Wiles often sits to the side in the Oval Office, out of camera view. Bill Barrow, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Oval Office

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“The Oval Office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Oval%20Office. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.

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