the Oval Office

noun

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

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The president's autism announcement is scheduled for tomorrow from the Oval Office. Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025 In October of that year, West visited the White House, taking a meeting with the president in the Oval Office. Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025 The study covered the period from 1980 to 2020, a stretch that saw three Democrats and four Republicans in the Oval Office, and during which the House was under Democratic Control three times and Republican control twice. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Sep. 2025 Trump has been pressuring Powell to cut since winning the Oval Office (despite lobbying for the contrary before the elections). Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Oval Office

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