oblong
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The map also showed oblong shapes above the tank site.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Nothing about Kansei Matsuzawa’s upbringing in Japan had prepared him to kick an oblong ball through upright goalposts in Hawaii.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
There’s something rather whimsical about eating the oblong fruit.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2025
The smallest of its windowless chambers was an irregular oblong box which was commonly referred to as "the Coffin", and was believed to be Robert Burns' favoured seat in the Tavern.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024
Newton’s modern biographer, Richard Westfall, concludes that we should regard Newton’s claim to have been surprised by the oblong image cast by the prism ‘as a rhetorical device which is not to be understood literally’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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