elliptical

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Published when its author was 28 years old, the slim, elliptical volume played a central role in Camus winning the Nobel Prize for literature at a time when that distinction still meant something.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Some exoplanets follow highly elliptical orbits, meaning the amount of heat they receive from their star changes significantly over time.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

More than 100 of Cheever’s stories appeared in the New Yorker from the 1940s into the 1980s, making him a sort of ambassador for that magazine’s brand of polished, elliptical fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The Moon has an elliptical orbit and when it is at its closest point to the Earth we say that it is in perigee.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025

Did such a law uniquely require that planets must follow elliptical orbits?

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin