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Recent Examples of oblong
Pick Award-Winning Hybrids Available in both round and oblong varieties (sometimes called grape tomatoes), cherry tomato plants fruit in a rainbow of colors.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2026
To identify the plant, Kaufmann recommends looking for a notch or lobe that is sometimes found on one side of the oblong leaflets with smooth margins.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
During the 2022 City Council remap process, Villegas was chair of the Latino Caucus had saw his ward redrawn into an oblong 8-mile noodle after losing a fight with the Black Caucus over how many majority Latino and Black seats the body should see.
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Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
The Pixel series features Google’s Camera Bar, an oblong camera bump that runs horizontally across the back panel.
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Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
7 Apr. 2026
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2026
To identify the plant, Kaufmann recommends looking for a notch or lobe that is sometimes found on one side of the oblong leaflets with smooth margins.
—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
During the 2022 City Council remap process, Villegas was chair of the Latino Caucus had saw his ward redrawn into an oblong 8-mile noodle after losing a fight with the Black Caucus over how many majority Latino and Black seats the body should see.
—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
The Pixel series features Google’s Camera Bar, an oblong camera bump that runs horizontally across the back panel.
—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for oblong
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By April 2019, the final stone went on show in Gabarone, graded as a type 11b Fancy Deep Blue, oval brilliant-cut VVS2 clarity, according to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
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The Meta Adventurer comes in a rectangular shape, the Meta Fury takes a more Ray-Ban-like square shape, while a special-edition Meta Glasses by Kylie comes in a slim, oval frame designed in collaboration with Kylie Jenner.
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Great for small and large living spaces alike, a rectangular coffee table can make your room feel bigger.
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Its competition includes both the Brother VC-500W label printer, which uses the same Zero Ink (Zink) technology, and the Canon Selphy QX20 photo printer, which can also print photos in both rectangular and square formats.
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The cucumber is a creeping vine plant that grows into a cylindrical shape.
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Only one size is produced, a 6 x 52 toro, 10 of which are individually tubed inside a cylindrical humidor that looks like it was designed by Iron Man.
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In the 2015 video installation The Slave Ship (The Law of the Sea), the film unfolds in an ovoid frame.
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The table revealed that an ovoid body—blunt nose, tapering tail—came closer to aerodynamic perfection than anything else a designer could draw.
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The facility will also include 50 production lines dedicated to manufacturing spherical micro- and nanodiamond powders used in advanced materials applications.
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Making Your Seashell Ice Spheres Grab a spherical ice mold, fill it with water, and set your seashell inside.
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The pieces are abstract but appear to show featureless human figures sitting atop globular, cloud-like shapes that float in the air.
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Nike engineered the globular Air units to be flexible and low to the ground.
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Wipe in circular motions with a lint-free microfiber cloth to loosen grime, then finish with long, horizontal swipes.
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The circular logic of it would be darkly comic if tens of thousands of livelihoods weren't caught in the middle.
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“Oblong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oblong. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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